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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 ...


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KEYWORDS: chat; localnews; mentalillness; suicide; tatoos
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To: libh8er

Awesome tattoos!

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8d2b07e3-e338-4875-a744-ff2707590fba

video clip from The Chronicles of Riddick. (3 seconds?)


41 posted on 08/04/2018 11:04:54 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: libh8er

If only there was some sign that he was was off mentally.


42 posted on 08/04/2018 11:07:05 AM PDT by GregoTX
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To: libh8er

These Lefties are a hoot. They defended and adored this guy’s whacked out nature. None of them thought his outward appearance was anything other than the most cool thing ever.

A conservative would have questioned all this, and told people there was something wrong here. And they would have been trashed for it.

So the folks who would have sought to help him were not welcome.

Go ahead and shed your fake tears Lefties.

You egged this guy on, and this is what came of it.


43 posted on 08/04/2018 11:07:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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To: libh8er

EEEK! Happy trails to you, we’ll never meet again...


44 posted on 08/04/2018 11:11:14 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ahhh, the Painless Pole! Best dentist in Korea-north AND south! He was also quite a hit with the ladies too, as I recall. Try reading the book if you can find it. As always, it is infinitely better than the movie...


45 posted on 08/04/2018 11:12:21 AM PDT by snuffy smiff (Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: Reno89519
Tattoos lead to suicide?

No. Tattoos like his are a sure sign of mental illness. Mental malfunction come first, followed by hideous tattoos to advertise that fact.

46 posted on 08/04/2018 11:14:19 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: libh8er

“We have to work harder to change the culture”
NO YOU DON’T! there is nothing wrong with the culture. Don’t blame everyone else for this guy’s problems.
The stigma over mental disease is because you can’t talk with one of them! They are not well mentally, so, by definition, it’s impossible to talk with them.
Just what do you want to change in the culture, idiot? Should they be treated like normal people?


47 posted on 08/04/2018 11:17:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hypocritical hysteria: Manafort/Russia Probe again!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"It has become harder and harder to distinguish between going mad and artistic license."

I don't think so... "Crazy as a $hithouse rat" still means pretty much the same as always... :)

48 posted on 08/04/2018 11:20:32 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: libh8er
Slimes run out of anti-Trump/America propaganda???
49 posted on 08/04/2018 11:28:14 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: CGASMIA68

I doubt he wasted much of that.


50 posted on 08/04/2018 11:44:19 AM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: miss marmelstein

“Catholics proscribe it”

You haven’t seen Pope Franny’s “dancing with demons” tat?

I actually didn’t know our faith forbids tattooing. But it makes sense. Defiles our God-given bodies, promotes weird things and blurs gender distinctions (and looks gross on girls).

I wonder if sincere religious tattos are forbidden also? That might be an acceptable type in my own thinking.


51 posted on 08/04/2018 11:44:20 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: SamAdams76

Bruce Jenner went from being a respected athlete to a national laughingstock. And for what purpose? He could have kept that part of his life private but instead he was cheered on by the Hollywood crowd to go public with it and who are now giving him the cold shoulder because he’s yesterdays news and more likely, he committed the crime of voting for Donald Trump!

Jenner’s management team and publicists ran the numbers and Bruce or whatever he/she now is that going trans was a sound business decision and would more than triple he/she’s earnings as a speaker and advertising icon.


52 posted on 08/04/2018 11:44:42 AM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: steve86

All tattoos are forbidden; same with piercings. (Ears included.) That was taken directly from the Jews.


53 posted on 08/04/2018 11:46:08 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: OrangeHoof
Such a waste of....ink.

He was drawn to death.

54 posted on 08/04/2018 12:04:22 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: When do we get liberated?

His fathers not his, but I get your point although these days some of these “zombie’est” find that crap attractive


55 posted on 08/04/2018 12:05:28 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: libh8er

Doorknob & scarf?


56 posted on 08/04/2018 12:08:42 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: libh8er

Lady Gaga killed him.

And by that I mean she and anyone else who helped put him on this suicidal path by encouraging or rewarding his self destructive and obsessive behavior.

What he truly needed was to hit bottom early to have any chance of turning his life around, and that happens if he’s being shunned by everyone around him as soon as the self-mutilating behavior became pronounced, such as being on the face.

One or two tattoos that are done for sentimental reasons and are preferably located somewhere not easily seen when clothed is fine. But when multiple tattoos are being publicly exposed, then that indicates the person is now defiantly taking pride in their self mutilation and have no concern with how this might hurt their health or their options. And sadly, the number of folks doing this also indicates how sick our society has become by normalizing or even in some sectors admiring this kind of pathology.


57 posted on 08/04/2018 12:10:24 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: libh8er
When making hiring decisions I had as one of my hard and fast rules that I didn't hire anyone with a tattoo that would be visible when wearing his/her uniform (I worked for a hospital).

Ours was a very prestigious institution whose reputation would be sullied by the sight of tattoos.

And I never regretted that policy.

58 posted on 08/04/2018 12:17:09 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: SamAdams76

True. Good post.

There is acceptance of differences and there is acquiescence to wrong-doing and self harm. We need to draw an arbitrary line there and make it clear. Just like we did with statutory rape.


59 posted on 08/04/2018 12:23:36 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: libh8er

Sad....truly
....but don’t you think anyone who would do that to their face and body is very brokenly dead already.


60 posted on 08/04/2018 12:32:24 PM PDT by Guenevere
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