Posted on 08/16/2026 6:58:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Robert Carradine’s family is suing the regents of the University of California, alleging that a series of failures at a UCLA psychiatric facility contributed to the actor’s death.
On Jan. 16, Carradine, 71, checked himself into UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital due to ongoing suicidal thoughts, The Wrap reported.
“Robert walked into UCLA’s locked psychiatric unit ‘feeling relieved to be hospitalized’ and hoped that ‘additional inpatient treatment would’ reduce his anxiety,” according to a legal complaint filed Aug. 7. “He was happy to be in a ‘locked, structured environment’ where he could rest – one that felt ‘containing and helpful.’”
Instead, according to the suit, facility workers let Carradine walk into a room without confiscating his belt, which contradicted UCLA’s policy that listed “belts and belt buckles” as contraband.
The suit claimed it was standard procedure for psychiatric hospitals to remove belts, as well as shoelaces and drawstrings, which could be used to “cause self-harm or hanging.” They said workers broke a “cardinal rule” by letting him keep his belt.
Hospital staff then left him inside a room with a rolling bedside table, which was “not a standard piece of furniture in the locked psych unit” and should have been removed before he was placed there, the filing said.
The next day, Carradine was found unresponsive and in cardiac arrest in his hospital room after attempting to take his own life.
“He suffered an anoxic brain injury and spent the next five weeks in the intensive care unit,” the lawsuit stated.
He was admitted to the ICU, where his condition continued to deteriorate and he never regained consciousness. He died five weeks later on Feb. 23. His manner of death was ruled a suicide.
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Overall the world is a safer place when they are contained. But the libs are never going to go along with that.
Absolutely, yes, because there are standard protocols for dealing with suicidal ideation that were not followed.
You do not leave a suicidal patient with possessions that can be used to hang themselves.
That’s no different than a surgeon leaving a sponge in your abdomen that causes sepsis.
True words.
Their famous father was married four times. There was a bitter struggle over custody of the boys when they were small, resulting in the state taking the boys away and putting them in a facility for a number of months that either Robert or David described as "like prison." There were two stepmoms going forward from there.
People with Irish genes may also a genetic propensity for low brain serotonin and depression. In spite of the glamorous surfaces and good looks, there was probably a lot of private anguish. And Hollywood isn't exactly known for sustaining relationships with anyone, much less with the Lord.
RIP.
So terribly true. They are grift conduits for "program administrators."
They are make work. All the programs use people who at one time would be working in factories and other production facilities.now funded by the government.
There is a strange guy that lives with his mother about five houses up the street. A few times a week he walks by, talking nonsense, vulgarity or just talking to himself at the top of his voice (Tourette syndrome?). The police are aware of him and keeps track of what he does.
Nature versus nurture is an age old question.
The hospital will settle out of court…and get visits by the state inspectors.
I cannot understand how any one would commit suicide. If I was in a coma or kept alive with so called no brain function, I would still want to be kept alive.
I am with you on that.
I keep telling my kids I cannot wait until I am burden on them. I can tell they are looking forward to it.
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