Erotic Asphyxiation: An Embarrassing Way to Die

David "badass" Carradine. Probably most familiar to you as Bill in Kill Bill:



And as Frakenstein in the cult classic Death Race 2000:



Well, ol' Dave proved to be just as bizarre as the characters he played when he was found dead, hanging from a rope in the closet of his rented room in Bangkok on June 3, 2009. He accidentally died while getting off.



His wife said about him:

"There was a dark side to David, there was a very intense side to David. People around him know that." Previously in her divorce filing she had claimed that "it was the continuation of abhorrent and deviant sexual behavior which was potentially deadly."

B character actor and sometimes politician with a cool mustache, Albert Dekker seemed like your average washed up 50s star. Pay no mind to this guy.

Actually do, because his death is a gross and depraved story.



He's not as elegant as he seems. The pic is deceiving cuz Albert was a pervert. A secret one. On Sunday May 5, 1968, Albert's fiance Geraldine Saunders went to his apartment to bang on his door. He hadn't been answering anybody's calls, so she just went on right ahead and forced the door open. What Geraldine saw made her pass out.

"Dekker was kneeling nude in the bathtub. A noose was around his neck but not tight enough to have strangled him. A scarf was tied over his eyes and a horse’s bit was in his mouth, fashioned from a rubber ball and metal wire, the bit had chain "reins" that were tightly tied beneath his head. Two leather straps were stretched between the leather belts that girded his neck and chest. A third belt, around his waist, was tied with a rope that stretched to his ankles, where it had been tied in some kind of timber hitch. The end of the rope, which continued up his side, wrapped around his wrist several times and was held in Dekker’s hand. Handcuffs clamped both wrists with a key attached. Written in red lipstick on his right buttock was the word, "whip." Sunrays had also been drawn around his nipples. "Make me suck," was written on his throat, and "slave," and "cocksucker," on his chest. On his stomach was drawn a vagina. He had apparently been dead for several days."

It seems like Bert was into some really weird shit. With some really weird people. 62 year old Albert Dekker was survived by 2 (probably very humiliated) children.

Lead singer of INXS (known for their new wave classic, "Never Tear Us Apart") had an unorthodox sex life. Like, so unorthodox it killed him.



On November 22, 1997, Michael was found hanging dead in his hotel room by a maid. According to the police report:



"He was in a kneeling position facing the door. He had used his snake skin belt to tie a knot on the automatic door closure at the top of the door, and had strained his head forward into the loop so hard that the buckle had broken"

He was buck naked and only 38 years old. This was the fateful room:

Comic book artist Vaughn Bode was known for his strange comic character Cheech Wizard. On July 18, 1975, Vaughn's friend Vincent broke down his door and found him laying on his back with his feet in the closet. He wore a leather mask with a slit for each eye and one for his mouth. Vaughn had apparently garroted himself to death for pleasure.

Omg what a classy lookin dude right? A violinist, virtuoso double bassist and composer! But his music isn't what he's remembered for.

This is why Frantisek's name went down in history:



"On February 2, 1791 while he was in London, Kotzwara visited a prostitute named Susannah Hill in Vine Street, Westminster. After dinner with her in her lodgings, Kotzwara paid her two shillings and requested that she cut off his testicles. Hill refused to do so. Kotzwara then tied a ligature around the doorknob, the other end fastened around his neck, and proceeded to have sexual intercourse with Hill. After it was over, Kotzwara was dead. His is most likely the first recorded death from erotic asphyxiation"

He must've had a hell of a time.

Ooh lala! Nice lookin guy, huh?

All bullshit aside, I've always thought all politicans were degenerate pigs, but it seems conservative MP Stephen Milligan proved it literally.



He may have looked confused, but he knew exactly what he was doing.

On February 7th, 1997, Stephen was found dead by his secretary. He was dressed in stockings and a suspender belt with a plastic bag around his head and an electric cord around his neck. Transvestite self bondage auto erotic asphyxiation. What a sleazeball! And he was even a right winger too. What hypocrisy.

Not so famous musician Kevin Gilbert, known mostly for dating Sheryl Crow, died in his LA home in May 17, 1996. The coroner listed the cause of death as "asphyxia due to partial suspension hanging.



"A black hood covered his face. His head was slumped against a leather strap chained to the headboard of the king-size bed in the sparsely furnished living room. The death of a former boyfriend and incriminating charges from former backing musicians are clouds hanging over Sheryl Crow's sunny career."
- JOEL SELVIN (San Francisco Chronicle)

Morbid stuff.

It seems the flamboyant Japanese guitarist Hide died from auto erotic asphyxiation, but the authorities didn't think it was appropriate to publish it that way. Quote wikipedia:

"Hide died on May 2, 1998. After a night out drinking, he was found hanged with a towel tied to a doorknob in his Tokyo apartment. Authorities officially deemed hide's death a suicide, and this verdict was reported in the media."



It may be speculation, but it seems more than possible that the alcoholic and impulsive musician was into freaky shit. I mean, why hell was he hanging from the doorknob by a towel?? If he wanted to kill himself on purpose, he'd have been hanging from the roof, but that's just my two cents. I don't buy the whole suicide thing because he was only 28, pretty famous in Japan and was still building up his musical career.