Bouncing back from attempted suicide.

There is also a long list of celebrity deaths related to psychiatric treatment and drugs - Marilyn Monroe, Kieth Cobain, Ernest hemingway, and many others.

Whoa ... I heard nothing about Owen Wilson's attempted suicide until this.

How pathetic is that, when you can't even commit suicide correctly? Since there isn't much rocket science involved, I'd say failure to plan wasn't the main cause, but that these attention whores didn't really mean it - they just wanted....you guessed it... the attention. Personally, to all those failures, I say "try try again" - we have 6 billion plus people on the planet and most of those are actually busting their hump trying to survive.

I haven't heard anything else about most of these cases, but including James Stockdale in there seems a little odd. Attempting suicide in 1969 to escape possible torture in a POW camp hardly seems to fall under the definition of "attention whore".

And I don't agree with that assessment of the rest, either.

hear hear VonSkippy!
besides torture escaping of course.

LIFE IS GOOD! STAY IN IT!

We need to stop idolizing and obsessing about these stars. It's a little ridiculous how much attention stories like these get.

I believe that for the most part, these dumb things stars do are from being drowned in cash, and being so idolized by thousands of fans.

Why can't we just like them in their movies without trying to pick apart and exam their entire lives?

I find it strange how people who liked Tom Cruise and saw all his movies now refuse because they think he's nuts.

If you think like I do, then do your part and don't click on the news articles about these stories.

Sorry for the rant, I just get really annoyed when I see Brittany Spears in the headlines over other crucial world changing events.

-Justin

On behalf of the world population, Von Skippy, we hope you get it right one day.

I think its a bit harsh to jump to the conclusion that its attention whoring, celebs already get plenty of attention.

I'm pretty sure there is a significant history of depression in comedians, but hey they're celebrities so they clearly don't require any sympathy or have problems like ordinary people.

Don't knock Von Skippy's opinion. Many suicide attempts are deperate pleas for attention.

As far as happy, successful people wanting to kill themselves, Edwin Arlington Robinson said it best:

WHENEVER Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

suprising