NY Soap actor commits suicide

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HUNTINGTON, New York (AP) -- Benjamin Hendrickson, an Emmy Award-winning actor on the "As the World Turns" soap opera, committed suicide last week with a gunshot to the head, police said.

Suffolk County police officers, called by concerned neighbors to Hendrickson's Long Island home, said they found him dead in his bed on Monday, July 3. The news was widely released Friday evening.

Hendrickson, 55, was a member of the first graduating class of the Juilliard School of Drama, along with actors Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone. He appeared on Broadway in the early 1980s as a replacement in the title role of "The Elephant Man" and in the 1984 revival of "Awake and Sing!"

He played Chief of Detectives Hal Munson for more than 20 years on CBS' "As the World Turns," winning a Daytime Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in 2003.

His last air date on the show will be July 12.
 
javapride said:
OH MAN! that SUCKS sucide's not the way out!!!!

RIP Ben
Really? Thats not what according to Ozzie Osbourne. He said this.

Wine is fine
But whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows
away tomorrows!!

Evil thoughts and evil doings
Cold, alone you hang in ruins
Thought you'd escape the reaper
You can't escape the master keeper

'Cause you feel life's unreal and you're living a lie
Such a shame who's to blame and you're wondering why
Then you ask from your cask is there life after birth
What you sow can mean hell on this earth
HELL ON THIS EARTH!!

Now you live inside a bottle
The reaper's travelling at full throttle
It's catching you but you don't see
The reaper is you and the reaper is me

Breaking laws, knocking doors
But there's no one at home
Made your bed, rest your head
But you lie there and moan
Where to hide, suicide is the only way out
Don't you know what it's really about?

Wine is fine
But whiskey's quicker
Suicide is slow with liquor
Take a bottle drown your sorrows
Then it floods away tomorrows
 
Buck, with all due respect, Java is right..its not a way out its not going to solve anything at all.

whatever the reason Ben killed himself...is not going to go away its gonna haunt his family and maybe friends.
 
Bowak said:
Buck, with all due respect, Java is right..its not a way out its not going to solve anything at all.

whatever the reason Ben killed himself...is not going to go away its gonna haunt his family and maybe friends.

I agree. Suicide is the last desperate act of someone with a troubled mind and soul. It shoud not be taken lightly.
 
Buckdodgers said:
Really? Thats not what according to Ozzie Osbourne. He said this.

Do you know anything about Ozzy Osbourne? If you did, you would realize he has psychological issues that he masked w/ drugs and alcohol for years. He has since gotten sober, and has been on proper medication for his issues now at least 2 yrs. I am sure he has since disavowed those lyrics.

Any sane person knows that suicide is not the way to solve problems.
 
Buckdodgers said:
Dont forget Frank Zappa took the way out too.

So? Doesn't mean it was good.

Off topic, but I thought Zappa had cancer?

Someone want to go googling? I'm not in the mood to look this up. :lol:
 
Oceanbreeze said:
So? Doesn't mean it was good.

Off topic, but I thought Zappa had cancer?

He did,,From Drugs and Alcohol he been taken caused his cancer.
 
Yes, Frank Zappa did die of cancer a few years back.

Its always sad that someone commits suicide though. It leaves alot of unanswered questions and emotional turmoil in families and friends. :(
 
sillycat said:
Yes, Frank Zappa did die of cancer a few years back.

Its always sad that someone commits suicide though. It leaves alot of unanswered questions and emotional turmoil in families and friends. :(

That's true, Sillycat. The fact that Buck brought up either Zappa or Osbourne has no bearing on the fact that suicide is tragic.
 
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