Posted on 06/06/2013 10:34:29 PM PDT by Mount Athos
Two life coaches who hosted a radio show called "The Pursuit of Happiness" apparently committed suicide together in their Brooklyn apartment, police said.
Motivational speaker John Littig, 48, and his common-law psychotherapist wife, Lynne Rosen, 46, were found with plastic bags over their heads and a tube attached to a canister of helium, according to police.
Two suicide notes were found, police said.
The manager of the building, Hasan Boztepe, 51, said he smelled a strong odor coming from the apartment and broke down the door Monday morning after no one answered his repeated knocks.
He found the bodies sitting on a couch, holding hands. The canister with an open valve was on Rosen's right, he said.
Boztepe said he also found two suicide notes, one apparently written by a man and one by a woman.
In the man's note, Boztepe remembered the words: "I can't take it anymore, my wife is in too much pain."
"I was shocked. I am still in shock. I feel so bad for these people," Boztepe said.
He said he knew the couple and stopped by the apartment last week to fix something for Littig. "He walked me to the door and said 'thank you very much.' He was a very nice guy -- and a couple of days later, this."
The couple's radio show, "The Pursuit of Happiness," on WBAI-99.5 FM focused on "personal development, growth and creativity" according to their website. It was an hourlong show airing every other Thursday afternoon.
The couple also led a life coaching consulting company, Why Not Now, offering coaching "designed to help foster and encourage your inner strengths," and "put you confidently on the path to designing the life you've always wanted to live," according to their website.
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Well I guess they gave all their happiness away! None was left.
Well they used helium so presumably were happy to the end. Good show!
Sounds rather worldly to me
Sounds like the “life coaches” were in need of a Referee.
This story sounds a bit odd. I don’t intend to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but if they really did commit suicide, what is the real reason? Did they commit some type of outrageous fraud and were about to be exposed, or were these two people murdered? For a moment let’s enter their minds before they killed themselves. I’m sure both were thinking, “hey, we made millions writing books about happiness, so let’s show the world that everything we wrote was wrong.” However, I’m not sure if they were really thinking that. So we should ask ourselves again, were these folks involved in a major fraud?
It’s a big mistake to be happy all the time.
When my daughter was a baby I used to make her laugh for hours but then later she would cry for hours.
Well, I’m thinking of worldly views of happiness, like life’s a gas then you die and then there’s nothing.
Hey, yeah! Great idea! I think I'll try that!
Without God, the ultimate message is hopelessness.
They got a jump start on Obamacare.
Yikes!
Amen. Amen, amen.
A theory: they must have been very unhappy and also envious of each other should the remaining partner find happiness. Hence the double suicide.
Amen. No amount of fancy feelgood fluff can do an end around on that fact.
Without God, the ultimate message is hopelessness.
It’s so nice to see a married couple doing things together.
This is bound to hurt book sales.
How is your daughter doing? For her sake I hope she is far away from you.
i think i’d be wanting my money back if they coached me.
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