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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FYI: WBAI is the nuttiest of the left wing loon Pacifica radio stations. Filled with angry, hateful, delusional libs.
With helium you have to wonder how high they got before they crashed.
Life coaches are counselors without medical training, religious figures without grounding in God.
Have you considered that this might be just your personal deficit ?
Perhaps Berlin_Freeper is a FEMALE. Mothers are usually more involved with spending hours entertaining their children than say, fathers.
However, Louis C.K. and George Carlin are both male, and they make me laugh for hours.
To me, it’s weird. Struck me that way right off.
I think it's just you. Ever considered getting a plastic bag and a tank of helium ?
: )
I wonder how many other people they endangered with their "coaching" and "motivation".
Lynne Rosen...... Lynne Rosen....
Any relation to James Rosen ?
Lynne Rosen’s’ LinkedIn page indicates she previously worked as a family therapist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.
James Rosen was born in Brooklyn to parents Myron and Adele Rosen.
Just because they both grew up in Brooklyn and have the same name, I’m sure it’s all coincidence. (or not)
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