From ‘Tausi’ Actress Ashina Kibibi to Other A-Listers Here Are Celebrities Who Have Committed Suicide (Photos)

They enjoyed success and fame during their time here on earth but sadly along the way they committed suicide.

Below is a list of celebrities who intentionally took their lives away:

1.Ashina Kibibi

The death of prominent TV actress and scriptwriter Ashina Kibibi who was known as ‘Siti’ in Tausi came as a shock to many as suicide in the Kenyan showbiz was unheard of at the time of her death.

Ashina is said to have taken her life after suffering from depression .Her family took her to see a herbalist in Mtwapa, Mombasa to find a cure for her condition but she sneaked out of the session and she was later found dead, from hanging herself.

The family said that they did not think Ashina committed suicide and alleged that someone killed her and hanged her body to make it look like she has taken her own life.

2.Kevin Carter

Kevin was a South African photographer famed for his exceptionally heartrending photography.

Photo:roads.co

He won the Pulitzer Prize for his disturbing photograph of a starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture as she tried to crawl towards a food station.

 

The award winning photograph

He later committed suicide through carbon monoxide poisoning leaving behind this note “I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners … I have gone to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I am that lucky.”

3.Lee Thompson Young

In august 9 2013 police found former Disney dead from an apparent suicide. The actor, who is known for roles in The Famous Jett Jackson (1998-2001) and as Detective Barry Frost on TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles, was discovered dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Los Angeles.

Lee was said to have been was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his late teens but no one really knows why he took his own life as he left no suicide note.

A year after his death, his family launched the Lee Thompson Young Foundation that aims at fighting the stigma against mental health through its educational awareness training.

4.Kurt Cobain

If you have crooned to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ or ‘Come as You Are’ or even ‘Heart-Shaped Box’ you are familiar with the wildly popular rock-band ‘Nirvana’.

 

Kurt the lead singer of the successful band was found dead in early April 1994 after allegedly shooting himself in the head and left this suicide note.

 

Many conspiracy theorists suspect that Kurt did not claim his own life and the alleged suicide note could have been doctored to make it look like he had killed himself.

5.Robin Williams

Fans of Robin the comedian were shocked by his death which was ruled as suicide. This is because he seemed cheery in most of his movies, and so many assumed he was okay but William was said to have suffered from depression for years and had been recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Robin was found dangling from a nylon belt in a closet door frame in an empty bedroom belonging to his stepson.

6.Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway a famous American writer was found dead at his home in Ketchum, Idaho with a shotgun wound in the head. Independent reports that “Ernest Hemingway, America’s most celebrated writer and a titan of 20th-century letters, awoke in his house in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho, rose from his bed, taking care not to wake his wife Mary, unlocked the door of the storage room where he kept his firearms, and selected a double-barrelled shotgun with which he liked to shoot pigeons. He took it to the front of the house and, in the foyer, put the twin barrels against his forehead, reached down, pushed his thumb against the trigger and blew his brains out.”

Ernest: www.telegraph.co.uk

Christopher D Martin, an Instructor and Staff Psychiatrist at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas said that Hemingway suffered from “bipolar disorder, alcohol dependence, traumatic brain injury, and probably borderline and narcissistic personality traits”.