like flies…
It seems a little less than nice on my part to entitle this post “Like flies” but I always try to find the humor in death I think it is like a defense mechanism… but wow… two children of very famous people/actors have committed suicide recently. This has always been a subject that is very close and personal to me because I have battled with depression most of the adult life (despite having a wonderful childhood).
Many years ago now I had to take doctor prescribed medication to fight my acne and this stuff had some serious side effects - the full list of which I will not go into but the most serious of which was the potential for severe depression perhaps resulting in death - or however they phrased it. Anyway after I had been taking it for a while - perhaps after I had completed my treatment I don’t really remember but I found out that supposedly actor Jonathan Brandis had been taking the same stuff and it had probably led to his death by suicide.
He was only a year of two older than me and because of the way movies work he was the same age as me whenever I saw him in a new movie. I liked him a lot and he showed up in a lot of the stuff I watched anyway, it was very sad when I found out what had happened and I felt depressed then because I just always felt that… if only I could have talked to him, maybe I could have helped. I do not know what it is like to be a celebrity - even with thousands of fans… did he still feel alone? Maybe if he had had someone to talk to. (Not that I don’t think that he did I am sure he was surrounded by a loving family)
Anyway I am reminded of that feeling recently, Both Andrew Koenig (son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig) and Brian Blosil (son of Marie Osmond) both committed suicide recently and whilst I may not have known anything about Brian Blosil - I did know a little about Andrew Koenig. Death - Particularly Death by suicide (a preventable death) is always sad.
The one “funny” thing I find in this recent news is that Andrew Koenig played “The Joker” in probably the best Batman fan film currently out there; Batman: Dead End. Both Heath Ledger and Andrew Koenig who both played the Joker, both died prematurely.
Ok I think I am at the end of my maudlin little rant. All of this is very sad and my thoughts are with the families of the deceased. sigh.