Soul Train creator Don Cornelius was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, California home. Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head according to police. The 75-year-old Cornelius suffered multiple health issues in recent years including a stroke. There was also some ugliness in 2008 with his then-wife who he ended up divorcing in 2010. In short, the last few years were hell for the guy. Rather than hang on like a lot of people, getting more and more sick and bitter, he chose the dignified way out. One shot to the head and it's over.
Despite what some people may think there's nothing cowardly about Cornelius' solution at all. It's simple logic. If you're totally sick of life and don't have the will to continue, why struggle on making yourself and everyone around you unbearably miserable? And if you are going to do it, don't mess around. Don't do the pill thing or the cutting-open-a-vein thing. Get a gun and do it quick and neat. It leaves kind of a mess but that won't be your problem anyway. Cornelius didn't blubber on Facebook or make a scene in the end and he didn't take anyone else with him, so there's no reason to condemn his actions on any level. He was tired of the whole thing and he bailed.
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A shot gun to the head is definitely my top choice but my only problem with that is, what if it doesn't kill you? I don't want to take that chance because then I'd be living with all the problems I had before but multiplied by a thousand, plus no face and probably not much of a head. I've seen that on someone. Just a huge crater where a face used to be, but on the upside, his ears were undamaged so he could hear everything he could no longer respond to vocally, or see, taste or smell. A crater for a face would be even less attractive than my normal face, which is fine, but then I'd be dependent on others to live and when would I get a chance to get my hands on another shot gun? I've given this a lot of thought. For no particular reason.
Effect on family? Nothing left to contribute to others? "Approval" from God? Effect on historical legacy of Soul Train?
May the good brother rest in peace. I'm sure God has an understanding heart and we can't leave this world before our time. No one can Judge him unless they walk in his shoes. I'm not sure if I would want to survive old age with sickness, disability and loneliness. Why!!
Why? Did his suicide hurt his family or the legacy of Soul Train? Was there nothin left he could do to help others even a little? Is suicide just how he felt without any consideration of anything or anyone else?
Yeah...I'm not seeing any issue here.
A 75 year old man who has already left his legacy on this earth, has had a stroke, a condition that required brain surgery and multiple other health issues that left him frail has every right to take himself out if that's what he chooses. What sense does it make to prolong that? Was there any hope he would get younger or healthier? Any god who doesn't understand that should look for other work or maybe think about fixing the old age/sickness thing, you know, because if there was a god it's not like he doesn't have that within his power.
If he Don Cornelius was my father/grandfather I'd be perfectly fine with his decision.
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