Hell on Earth, rock band to feature "Live Suicide" during concert
 

Rock Band Announces Plan For 'Live Suicide' On Stage

TAMPA -- An alternative rock band's claim that it will feature a ``live suicide'' onstage during a St. Petersburg gig next month has gotten the attention of the concert hall owners and local police.

The Tampa group, Hell on Earth, said on its Web site that a terminally ill member of a right-to-die group planned to commit suicide on stage during an Oct. 4 performance at the State Theater.

The volunteer, who the Web site said would not be identified until the day of the show, wanted to carry out the suicide onstage to ``raise awareness for dying with dignity.''

Dave Hundley, one of the owners of the theater, said he found out about it via an e-mailed press release Monday. He said he was hoping to talk to band members to determine if they planned to carry out the stunt or were just trying to generate publicity.

``If I have an inkling that this is for real, I need to worry about it,'' Hundley said Tuesday. He stopped short of saying he would cancel the gig, for which the band has paid to rent the downtown St. Petersburg theater.

Hundley said Hell on Earth played the venue a couple years ago and has been known to stage some strange stunts, such as chocolate-syrup wrestling and grinding up rats in a blender.

``I wouldn't put it past them,'' he said of the staged suicide.

The Web site did not list a contact number for the band and repeated attempts to contact members Tuesday were unsuccessful.

Spokesman Bill Proffitt said St. Petersburg police started getting calls about the band's stunt Tuesday morning. It's a second-degree felony in Florida to assist a suicide, he said, but police were trying to get more information and hadn't yet determined how to respond.

``We've just begun looking at it and we're not quite sure where to go from here,'' Proffitt said. ``Obviously, the St. Petersburg police does not condone public displays of suicide.''

The band's Web site, which went down late Tuesday morning, did not say how the person planned to commit suicide.

The volunteer hoped to use the event ``as a platform to make back-street suicides a thing of the past,'' the site said.

But the band shouldn't expect applause from right-to-die advocates, said David Goldberg, spokesman for the Denver-based End of Life Choices, formerly known as the Hemlock Society.

``While we encourage national dialogue on dying and death issues, we are concerned about this particular circumstance,'' Goldberg said.

"Live Suicide"..... that just wounds wrong.

I get the feeling that if more of that bands fans would kill themselves the world would be a little bit of a better place. Now if they could get Celine Dion and Destiny's Child fans to do the same we'd have a great thing.

Too funny... I run the website site for the State Theater and know this silly band... and I truly believe that although it's surely a publicity stunt, they'd actually go through with it.

it will never happen, and if it does, im gonna sue:thumbsup

Puleeze, Yoko Ono beat em' to it. Her singing is so horrid she dies on the stage every performance.

Publicity stunt? Raising public awareness? Attention whoring? Public gene-pool cleansing?
YOU DECIDE!
Next, on Jerry Springer...

Must have 0 talent if they have to have a live suicide on stage to draw people.

Funny how suicide is illegal.... I mean really, what are they gonna do to you? Lock you up? Your dead.

People who have no hope of surviving the illness they have and are going to die a long painful death or will be hooked up to machines for a lenght of time should just have their life terminated if that is their wish.

Who gains by keeping them alive? No one except the hospital who gets the $$ for keeping them alive on machines.

I mean please... what is the hang up with death and keeping people alive?

They actually do arrest you if you try to kill yourself and don't succeed. Kind of funny when you think about the irony of that.

I do think the terminally ill should have the right to do it at least since they are dying anyway.

Crazy really that the government controls our lives to this point of dictating we aren't allowed to die when we want. Obviously its in their self interest of not wanting to lose a TAXPAYER.

:1orglaugh

GG Allin said he would do the same thing...

The one thing he didn't do, LOL

Anyway, the idea isn't very original but if they do pull it off it will be the first I've heard of, which is why there is no way in hell I'll miss the show. Anybody interested in vids, lemme know. I know the guys at the State Theater so getting a video of the show will be no problem.

More to come... Or not...

Suicide on stage,,,, "WHAT A FREAK" So do you give the grand to the next of kin?

I most definitely want a dupe of the video... That'll be the shit worth showing to the guys at work!! :ak47:

sick peices of shit

Old GnR album "Live! Like a Suicide"
http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=product&id=1921051028

GG Allen had no political message. He just liked to shit on stage.

I agree with the message Hell on Earth is trying to get out, but this is not the way to do it. This will be counterproductive to the cause.

When I was driving to work this am some chick called the radio station and said her ex boyfriend played with this band briefly. She said he flipped out when one of the guys in the band cut himself and started beating off using his own blood for lubrication. EWWWWWWW!!!!!!
I guess they wear dildos on their heads too according to the radio caller.

"the cause" eh?

why is it you americans are such sick fucks compared to the rest of the "semi normal" world?

Struggling musicians can't afford Astroglide, apparently.

:321GFY gawd damn forenner!

:BangBang: forenners

I take it you're against assisted suicide? You think people should be forced to spend the remaining years of their lives in pain and lying in their own shit with no hope of a cure rather than just going ahead and ending it? You think their families should be forced to watch their loved ones die slow, torturous deaths while mumbling incoherently?

I'm sorry, but if my mother were in that kind of condition with no hope of recovery, and she wanted to die, I'd help her, even if it meant jail time.

WTF:warning

Pretty much everywhere I think. They lock you up in the nut house until you calm down. I don't think they really prosecute these cases.

The band actually does pretty good crowd wize. They don't play shows too often, and usually put on quite a crazy show.
I've done video for them I'll dig some up and maybe post it for shits and giggles....

I predict that at 4:48, LeeNoga will make a post in this thread

If it happens, I'm sure Ryan_CJ will post the vid right here :glugglug

On the news, the venue theatre will cancel the concert if they suspect any chance of this suicide is to take place.

Its a 2nd degree felony for any charged with assisting, and the venue does not want the liability...

So this is NOT going to happen, they got publicity and thats worth alot of miles until their Oct 4th concert in St. Pete.

They raised alot of awareness already about the freedom to take ones life....no reason to really carry it out.

We're just getting ever closer to having Soylent Green on the shelves at your local 7/11.

As soon as they find out about a cat, a dog, a horse etc.....is going to die (seriously ill) they put them to "sleep" without any hesitation. But for humans ?????

Now what's the catch here ?

animals don't pay taxes.

I think GG Allin would have actually gone through with it eventually had he not overdosed first.

It is ironic we can put our pets to sleep when their days are numbered, but humans must suffer. Again its all about money. Doctors and hospitals don't make money unless you have sick and old people filling up their beds. Always follow the money trail.
Always.

:thumbsup

I hope the guy shoots himself in the head and the bullet goes through his brain...out his head...and hits the lead singer in the pecker.

:)

it's got to be some kind of publicity stunt.. what's the bet the show will be a sell out.

What if he thinks what the fuck.... I'll use explosives and take the whole fucking lot out :)

Where do they do that, exactly?