Imaginative, unusual, creative ways to "end it all."

Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) - singer 1954 --- suicide playing Russian roulette.

Janet Elaine Adkins 1990 --- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

Clara Blandick - actress (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz) 1962 --- sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head. She was 81-years-old and suffering from crippling arthritis.

Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud) 1996 --- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour "suicide watch."

Hart Crane - poet 1932 --- suicide by drowning. On a steamship, he bid his fellow passengers farewell and jumped overboard.

Thich Quang Duc - Buddhist monk 1963 --- set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest government persecution of Buddhists.

R. Budd Dwyer - politician (Pennsylvania) 1987 --- Convicted of bribery and conspiracy in federal court and about to be sentenced, he called a press conference; there, in front of spectators and TV cameras, he shot himself in the mouth.

Lillian Millicent Entwistle - actress 1932 --- suicide by jumping from the 'H' of the 'HOLLYWOOD(LAND)' sign.