Discussion Elliott Smith: Suicide or Murder?

[traingirl]

Do you guys think Elliott Smith really killed himself by stabbing him self in the heart or do you think he was murdered? I just think it takes a lot of fucking guts to be able to do that. With any suicide method at his disposal, it just seems weird he would choose that, unless there was a moment of desperation where he just said fuck it or he was experiencing a psychotic break.

 

[itsgone2]

I would think yes some sort of psychotic break. I can't imagine pulling that off otherwise. Circumstances are suspicious but not impossible I'd say.

 

[a.dream.of.a.dream]

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Suicide by stabbing oneself in the heart is a gruesome and tragic method that is thankfully rare. While there are no official statistics on the number of suicides that involve this method, it is estimated that it accounts for a small percentage of all suicides.

 

[traingirl]

I would think yes some sort of psychotic break. I can't imagine pulling that off otherwise. Circumstances are suspicious but not impossible I'd say.

Apparently it happened during an argument with his girlfriend which makes it suspicious but I could also see him being in a psychotic episode and that being his breaking point and deciding fuck it out of anger and desperation apparently he was exhibiting psychotic symptoms before his death