<p><< While there have been conflicting reports as to the nature of Carradine’s death, That newspaper The Nation is claiming that an unidentified Thai police source said the actor was found hung in his hotel room from curtain rope in an apparent suicide.>></p>
<p>How about Carradine in the 1975 cult flick “Death Race 2000”? That was a surprisingly enjoyable movie.</p>
<p>I seem to remember something having to do with a placenta or afterbirth of his child with an actress (Barbara Hershey?)–did they eat it, plant it, what was it?</p>
<p>I really dislike speculation about these types of things, but speculate I will anyway. From the disgusting little bits I have read so far without fully researching it, cause of death may have been accidental while pursuing some weird kinky stuff. Happens all the time and looks like suicide, or so I am told.</p>
<p>If this were a TV show, he would have been murdered and his body staged to look like suicide. But so rarely is life as interesting as a TV script.</p>
<p>I was intrigued by the placenta story and had to look up Carradine on imdb. I learned that he “lived with Barbara Hershey from 1972-75 (she changed her last name to Seagull to during this time). They have a son they named Free Carradine at birth, but who has since changed his name to Tom Carradine.”</p>
<p>Seagull–that’s right. She was in the movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a 1970s best seller that did not stand the test of time. Carradine and Hershey were going to eat the placenta, but when the time came, they just couldn’t do it, so planted a tree and fertilized it with the placenta. </p>
<p>I’m guessing there weren’t many things those two wouldn’t ingest in their time…Aaah, the 70s…when all dark side of all the 60s became more clear.</p>
<p>People still eat placenta. Google it, theres recipes available. Personally I dont eat red meat… Different times and different cultures view food items very differently. Had an exchange student once that told me he loved horse meat, but wouldnt eat corn on the cob. In fact was insulted that I offered, in Italy, corn on the cob is livestock food not guest food! You should have seen his face when we had steamed crabs!</p>
<p>Kinky stuff that results in hanging is far too much “kink” for me, and I tend to be open minded. I’ve heard of this type of death before and shook my head then too. Has anyone heard why he was in Bangkok? The city of kinky sex for sure.</p>
<p>Turns out that NJres’s ruminations were on point. Too bad. You’d think a 70+ person would have better sense than that! Or at least have a spotter!!!</p>
<p>I do not wish to be judgemental, but I people I met who’ve vacationed in Bangkok (prior to, or after their marriages) chose that country for dubious reasons. Nothing illegal, but behavior that they wouldn’t want published on the front page of the local daily.</p>
<p>I am not speculating about what happened. But conceivably, a person could have consented to a sexual act with another person (thus no forced entry) and died unexpectedly during the course of that risky act and it went awry and the other party could opt to then leave. Just saying that could be one way that hands were tied behind someone’s back, with no criminal intent or forced entry into the room.</p>