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Old 12-26-2009, 03:00 PM
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"...after a week long coma caused by an overdose of muscle relaxants", what da heck?
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Old 12-26-2009, 04:33 PM
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Wha!!!!!!!!!!???????
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Old 12-26-2009, 08:44 PM
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He tried to kill himself. It took an extra day.

It sure sucks, and I don't know what led him to it, but there had to have been a better option.

Either way, r.i.p. Vic.
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Old 12-26-2009, 08:53 PM
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Hardly a big surprise, but still a huge bummer.
I hope he found the peace he was looking for.
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Old 12-27-2009, 05:46 AM
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He tried to kill himself. It took an extra day.

It sure sucks, and I don't know what led him to it, but there had to have been a better option.

Either way, r.i.p. Vic.
Heard about this from Rockrap. Sounds like he got fed up of fighting. I guess that the medical bills might also have been a factor.

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"This is not a story of a rock star being on heroin or even drinking themselves down," Cohen said Friday in an interview with The Times. "The real story here is about someone who struggled against amazingly difficult odds for many years and managed to transcend those odds with almost unparalleled productivity and creativity and power in his work."

In recent interviews he contemplated the challenges he faced as a wheelchair-using paraplegic with inadequate health insurance and mounting medical bills.

"I'm not too eloquent talking about these things," Chesnutt told The Times earlier this month. "I was making payments, but I can't anymore and I really have no idea what I'm going to do. It seems absurd they can charge this much. When I think about all this, it gets me so furious. I could die tomorrow because of other operations I need that I can't afford."
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