I don't know...alot of you on the list could be WAYYY over- rationalizing this. Perhpas the guy was so wacked out on smack he had no idea what he was doing! Anybody ever considered that scenario?? Jeff >If he was REALLY, rationally doing it for the effect, wouldn't he have >left a cool / mysterious / profound suicide note? Wouldn't he have >finished the new record first? It doesn't make sense. Because it's not >supposed to. It was an irrational act by an individual in the throes of >severe mental disease. That's not CHOICE.