It's not suicide, because suicides are on purpose. His was on accident.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jon-Erik Hexum
kwakkles — 19 years ago(January 29, 2007 03:11 PM)
It's not suicide, because suicides are on purpose. His was on accident.
It's not homicide, because a homicide would be if someone else killed him.
Obviously, it's not natural causes.
So what do you term it??
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frisby85022 — 18 years ago(January 11, 2008 09:42 PM)
OR just accidental death. This is a man who had EVERYTHING to live for and was just screwing around andwhoops, what have I done kind of thing. Jennifer O'Neill even chastised him on set (Cover Up) for these same kind of antics some weeks before. Life is preciousyou push the envelope enough nature will recoil and strikeand before you can formulate another thought or bat an eyelash, your veins are filled with strychnine!
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Frumious_Bandersnatch_46 — 17 years ago(December 11, 2008 02:04 AM)
Yes,
accident
seems the best of the terms you've analyzed.
I think
tragic accident
might be more fitting.
I forget who wrote this, but it seems to suit this situation
Of all sad words e'er writ by men,
The saddest are these, "It might have been."
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goodkarma2 — 17 years ago(February 26, 2009 04:19 AM)
I'd term it accident. Unless you asume he intended to kill himself (which I personally don't believe at all) it's obvious he probably touched the trigger unintentionally or he really wasn't aware of the danger at that moment, being tired and all. Tragic accident might be the even better 16d0expression.
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namaGemo — 15 years ago(September 14, 2010 08:04 AM)
He was messing around playing russian roulette in front of other cast members, not looking for a quiet place to kill himself with intent. The intent is what makes it a suicide or not, and he was not suicial, just stupid.
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VBliss31383 — 16 years ago(September 01, 2009 08:45 PM)
Oh, that's a nice reply.
If you do any kind of research on his death, you will find that on any movie or TV set, a loaded gun, including a gun loaded with blanks, is taken away from the actors as soon as the scene is shot, and locked up by the propmaster. The propmaster didn't do his job like he was supposed to do, and the gun was left out.
In scenes where a gun is not discharged, the actors will often work with a gun that is never, ever loaded.
Jon-Erik was extremely tired that day, having suffered from insomnia and had been filming 12-14 hour days. He fell asleep on set during one of the many delays in shooting. He awoke to yet another delay, and was frustrated, needing to catch a plane to Vegas to shoot Circus of the Stars. My guess is that he thought he grabbed the never loaded gun (thinking the loaded gun was locked up), probably made a commment like, "Good Lord, shoot me now," and pulled the trigger. How many of us have done something 111clike that with our fingers making an imitation of a gun? Only the propmaster's incompetence took Jon-Erik's life.
I like his friend, Christie Jenkin's description of that day:
http://christiejenkinsphotography.com/jonerik.htm
He wasn't stupid, nor was he ignorant. The man had studied philosophy in college, was an accomplished pianist and diver, and worked on a career to create artificial organs, before becoming an actor. Labeling him as stupid is a careless and ignorant statement.
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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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