It's not suicide, because suicides are on purpose. His was on accident.
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gingasnaps — 16 years ago(September 03, 2009 06:46 AM)
Thank you for that comment, I had tried to explain that on another thread, a sheer accident.
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VBliss31383 — 16 years ago(September 03, 2009 04:40 PM)
Thank you for the support. Then again, I think we think alike on quite a few things when it comes to Jon-Erik! LOL!
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jazinegrrrl — 16 years ago(September 27, 2009 06:58 AM)
While his death is a tragic accident, his studying philosophy in undergrad and being artistically and athletically gifted has NOTHING to do with him tampering with a dangerous weapon unsupervised. You're comparing academic smarts to street smarts. I don't know what he could have been thinking to do such a thing. He obviously misjudged the risk, and that was foolish.
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VBliss31383 — 16 years ago(September 27, 2009 12:37 PM)
I know that his academic smarts have nothing to do with the accident.
I brought it up in response to those that think he was a stupid, airheaded model. There was a lot more to him than that, and the accident had nothing to do with whether he was intelligent or not.
For those that really don't care, but just want to spew crap about the situation find it a lot easier to just label Jon-Erik as stupid, and blame the accident on said stupidity. There's so much more to the story than that.
Granted, he shouldn't have put the gun to his head, but my bet is he thought he had the never loaded gun that he always carried to act with. He was extremely exhausted when the accident happened. He had a bout of insomnia in addition to being overworked. I think most of us can do something stupid when we're that tired. Heck, when I'm in that state, I won't even drive, for fear that I will get into an accident and kill myself and/or others. Doesn't mean I'm stupid, I'm just exhausted and not thinking clearly.
And yes, the prop department is ultimately to blame. Had that gun not be left out, we'd still have Jon-Erik with us.
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AltaireIII — 15 years ago(August 30, 2010 05:53 PM)
"No no no. Hexum is to blame here, not the prop department. While the prop department deserves a little of the heat, it was ultimately Hexum's stupid ass decision that took his life. Sounds like stupid to me, no more no less."
I remember when this happened. I did not know at the time that a pistol that fires blanks is still a deadly weapon. I was totally ignorant of that fact.
I think Jon Erik Hexum was ignorant about that too. Sadaly he learned the hard way. Smart people can do incredibly dangerous things due to their ignorance.
On of my cousins has a masters degree. She became very ill from mixing bleach with amonomia to clean her bathroom floor. She had no idea those two cleaning agents produce toxic fumes when mixed together.