Washington Post: "The Definitive Story on Christine Chubbuck, The Anchorwoman Who Killed Herself on Live TV, 1974 Morning Broadcast"

I'm sure there will be people on this sub that somehow do the mental gymnastics to turn this into a good thing that she killed herself on TV, but I just think that's really fucked up and probably very disturbing for people to watch.

Some might, but I think most know that it is not right in any sense to force people to watch you blow your brains out.

This just illustrates her level of rage and the state of mind she was in. She was obviously in a state of great pain and despair, a feeling all-too familiar to we on this subreddit, but there was so much rage behind what she did.

It was as if she was saying, "Look what you've done to me! You have crucified me!" Her and Budd Dwyer.

Her mother said, "Christine had no right to bring that kind of gore into people's homes," and she was right.

The article stated that her father forced her to break up with a boy she really like when she young and that she decorated her bedroom the way a teenager would even though she was almost 30 years old. Makes me wonder what dark family secrets there might have been.

What she did was fucked up. Sometimes I think with suicide it is the sense of rage that people cannot live with, and Christine Chubbuck took her rage out on thousands of unsuspecting viewers.

/r/SanctionedSuicide Thread Parent