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Tattooed Model Known as Zombie Boy, Dies at 32 (suicide)
Failing NYT ^ | 08.03.2018 | Amisha Padnani

Posted on 08/04/2018 10:17:36 AM PDT by libh8er

Rick Genest, a model who was known for his head-to-toe tattoos and for appearing in the music video for Lady Gaga’s 2011 song “Born This Way,” has died at 32.

Dulcedo Management, which represented him, confirmed his death on its Facebook page on Thursday but did not say where or precisely when he died. He lived in Montreal.

On her Twitter account, Lady Gaga said the cause was suicide, and that it was “beyond devastating.”

“We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it,” she wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; localnews; mentalillness; suicide; tatoos
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1 posted on 08/04/2018 10:17:36 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Did he, perhaps, have trouble getting a job?


2 posted on 08/04/2018 10:20:07 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: libh8er
“We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it,” she wrote...

...apparently without a sense of irony...

3 posted on 08/04/2018 10:20:39 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: libh8er

Suicide is painless
https://youtu.be/CVBATYWFKp8


4 posted on 08/04/2018 10:20:42 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (alea iacta est)
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To: libh8er
He was NOT born that way!!!

Of course, the Hollywood vampire (in this case, Gaga) was perfectly willing to cash in on his mental illness when it was profitable for her, rather than getting him help...

5 posted on 08/04/2018 10:21:50 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Billthedrill

It appears we are on the road to normalizing psychopathology: homosexuality, gender dysphoria, whatever you call what this poor freak did to himself, etc. So “bringing metal health to the forefront” apparently means erasing the concept of metal illness.


6 posted on 08/04/2018 10:24:49 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: libh8er

When will this tattooing crap end? There’s a reason Jews and Catholics proscribe it.


7 posted on 08/04/2018 10:25:00 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Such a waste of....ink.


8 posted on 08/04/2018 10:26:32 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN - the most busted name in news.)
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To: libh8er

““We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it,” she wrote.”

Gaga and other liberals allow troubled people to hide behind tats, homosexuality, and other crap. They enable the mentally ill. We used to help them, now we tell them it’s OK.


9 posted on 08/04/2018 10:28:49 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: libh8er

And nobody realized he had mental problems?


10 posted on 08/04/2018 10:31:25 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Such a waste of....sperm


11 posted on 08/04/2018 10:31:30 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Hum the melody of ‘Suicide is painless’ to the middle 8th of the melody to “Its a mad mad mad World”.


12 posted on 08/04/2018 10:31:55 AM PDT by heights
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To: Billthedrill

Exaccty my first thought too


13 posted on 08/04/2018 10:32:45 AM PDT by wardaddy (Hanged not hung.)
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To: CodeToad

It’s odd how such self contradictory attitudes end up dissolving themselves.

One of Gaga’s more recent pop songs is the diner-fare, annoying sounding “The Cure.” Whether her idea of a cure is right, the idea that one might be needed opens the door to greater discussion.


14 posted on 08/04/2018 10:32:57 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: heights

https://youtu.be/ZoLhuRp5IjM Its a mad mad mad world ...song


15 posted on 08/04/2018 10:33:05 AM PDT by heights
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To: \/\/ayne

It has become harder and harder to distinguish between going mad and “artistic license.”


16 posted on 08/04/2018 10:34:09 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: libh8er
Sad. That dude was seriously messed-up.
17 posted on 08/04/2018 10:34:53 AM PDT by JPG (MAGA)
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To: libh8er

Demons influenced/controlled him.
Kinda like that fat woman who lived on her sofa for 20+ years.


18 posted on 08/04/2018 10:35:53 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: libh8er

Couldn’t stand looking at that Face every morning


19 posted on 08/04/2018 10:36:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Original Lurker

Looks like he walked into Halloween and never wanted to leave it.


20 posted on 08/04/2018 10:36:56 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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