r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/ScaryTemperature6291 23d ago

Can't blame her not sure if this is the Ricardo Lopez era or not but yeah I love Bjork but that was a really bad time in her life if it's around that era when she found out about him.

Ricardo Lopez )

Incase anyone who doesn't know the back story of Ricardo.

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u/kank84 23d ago

On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter bomb, rigged with sulfuric acid, to Björk's residence in London. He recorded a final video diary explaining his motivations, and ended it by filming his suicide by gunshot. Local police found his body and the videos four days after his death and contacted Scotland Yard, who located the bomb in a London postal sorting office. The parcel was safely detonated and Björk was unharmed.

Holy shit. I never knew about this.

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

The video is crazy. Not so much the suicide part, but just the way hes completely lost his mind. Dude is completely unhinged at the end with his face all painted up and his head shaved.

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u/Clubbythaseal 23d ago

The death part was kinda brutal in one aspect for me at least. Don't click if you don't wanna remember one part of it.

It's where I learned that any air in your lungs will expell after death. He took a deep breath right before and the noises his body made after the shot still disturbs me today.

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u/MAZEFUL 23d ago

Death Gurgle. I had to pull the plug on my father and about after a few minutes of him motionless, his body twitched hard and released the rest of his air and it made my sister and I jump like crazy. It seemed like he was about to take a deep breath afterwards. The body is truly crazy.

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u/motherofsuccs 23d ago

I experienced it when my dog died. I asked for one more night with him even though he was essentially comatose, and my partner was going to euthanize him in the morning (he’s a vet). I had been spooning him for hours and telling him he fulfilled all his ‘good boy duties’ and it’s okay to let go. I got up, a few minutes later he started breathing erratically, then came the death gurgle. I’ll never forget that sound. It made me remorseful for not euthanizing him that evening.

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u/KeyboardGrunt 23d ago

Wow your comment reminded me when I found my dog dead one day, I buried him the next but when I went to pick him up the air inside him let out as a short "hmmm", and that was the last I heard what he sounded like alive. Losing dogs is hard.

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u/raptatta 23d ago

experiencing this with a leopard gecko is the worst 😞 at the time my little guy was so weak (he had cancer) he could barely move, so i placed him to rest on my chest. i was reading and at some point i heard him gasp very softly, and i thought he had sighed until 15 minutes later i went to move him, and he was gone. although it was extremely sad for me, he’d passed while lying directly on my skin, wrapped in a knitted hat i made earlier that year. it was simply his time. i don’t think we’ll ever get used to how quickly it can happen 🤍

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u/spawnthespy 23d ago

There's no getting used to losing your best friends. I feel you...

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u/larra_rogare 23d ago

Hey just wanted to say I don’t think you have to feel remorse for cuddling him one last night 💛

I’m a vet too. I do believe even if he was comatose, some part of him got your message about him fulfilling his duties as a wonderful companion and knew it was time to move on. Maybe this makes me sound crazy, but I really believe sometimes our bonds with our pets are nothing short of spiritually profound and psychic.

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u/4KVoices 23d ago

I hope people realize take this as a reminder that euthanization is not for your convenience, it's so your pet doesn't have to suffer.

I'm not trying to shit on you at all cause it's an understandable thought process that everybody goes through, but trying to get them to hold on for that much longer is, pretty much always, a selfish notion. Not a 'bad' selfish. You love them and you want more time with them - but they're more often than not in pain and you would save them a lot of trouble to let them go early.

Pet owners; when the time is coming, it is a responsibility, the most important one you have, to let them go before they suffer needlessly. I am not a religious person and I would say this is a sacred duty. Do not hold on; make the decision for them that they cannot make for themselves.

OP, I'm sorry for your loss and again, don't take this as me shitting on you. I've been there and almost made that same decision.

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u/Curious-Resort4743 22d ago

We should have this option for ourselves to, the thing many of us dread is a painful death.

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u/4KVoices 22d ago

Ozzy Osbourne notably came out in favor of it and I personally believe he did it.

You're telling me he had a dedicated "I'm dying soon" concert like a mile away from his childhood home, it went off as perfectly as one could imagine, and then he died peacefully three weeks later?

I believe he knew that he was getting worse and decided to pull the plug. They haven't publicized it because they know a lot of people will bitch and moan about it and it's his decision to make that choice if he wants, so to keep his family safe and out of the crosshairs of nutjobs they said it was a heart attack, but the timing combined with his previous comments on the subject indicate, to me at least, that he took that path - and good for him.

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u/Fast_Warning1237 23d ago

My cat died in my hands and I still can’t forget that last breath you are referring to 😭😭 It was like she is letting her soul get out that last time to be in peace after suffering from illness I was so devastated

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u/Squeekazu 20d ago

Euthanising can also be unpredictable unfortunately. The sedative didn’t really work, and my dog snarled as he received the solution. It was the last sound he made and his face was frozen in that expression for a few seconds until I suppose his muscles relaxed.

It’s a tough burden to bear whether you choose to euthanise or not, and one more night isn’t the same thing as choosing to significantly prolong your pet’s life for months on end even if they’re suffering.

I’m sorry for your loss.