And, last I heard, the South Vietnamese general, and it has been quite a while, so he may now no longer be among the living, was running a successful restaurant in Vienna, Virginia.
A better analogy of the establishment media's lemming like rush toward the cliffside, with readership of News On Dead Trees down from previous post-television lows of only 2 percent of the public to about 0.5 percent in the past five years might be a less stark variation on the following image:
Picture Keith Obermann, deliberately oblivious (unike the young man who looks more as though he has just finished his course in Television Journalism and then spent the summer reading Godless by Ann coulter) to what will happen when the wad of lead propelled into his skull by a self-detonated chemical reaction, says something like:
"False but accurate... that will show me!"
(By the way, this similarly iconic representation of suicide is most highly unrecommended as a proper way to use a handgun for that purpose. That's especially true if it is of small caliber. This method is generally considered to be a high risk for self-lobotomy, rather than suicide... though the caliber of handgun in the image does appear pretty hefty, and may be loaded with a shell of the kind that spreads out nicely and would then remove a cone of head on the opposite side of the entry wound.
"Eating your gun," and using the thumb to aim at severing the brain stem and spinal column connection behind the tonsils is often more messy, but considered much more highly effective at self-termination.