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* [[wikipedia:Pete Maravich|"Pistol" Pete Maravich,]] at age 25: "I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40." After a 10-year NBA career, Maravich collapsed and died of a heart attack on January 5, 1988 -- a little more than six months shy of his 41st birthday.
* During an interview, [[The Doors|Jim Morrison]] heard about the deaths of [[Jimi Hendrix]] and Janis Joplin. Turning to the interviewer, he held up his glass and said "You're drinking with number three." Not too long afterwards, he was gone.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141102231706/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/101896-BP-Offshore-Oil-Drilling-Board-Game-Has-Unfortunate-Implications This board game.] Or maybe it's [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], depending on your sense of humor. (And yes, your rig could blow up in the game, for a penalty of one million dollars. I guess that one actually had the safeguards installed.)
* Once during the 50's, a Japanese girl called [[The Ojou|Michiko Shouda]] went through an arranged date with a promising novelist named Kimitake Hiraoka, but they didn't marry. She went on to marry none other but [[The White Prince|Crown Prince]], [[The Emperor|later emperor]] Akihito...and in [[The Seventies]], her ex-boyfriend of sorts Hiraoka (now known as [[Yukio Mishima]]) staged a coup to give Akihito's father [[The Emperor]] (Hirohito, properly known since his death as Showa, after the name of his reign) back his powers as the leader of the country, and committed [[Seppuku]] when it didn't work.
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjf27-uY0Ss&feature=related this interview], David Foster Wallace talks about how, even though there have been hard times in his life, and he doesn't have a clear path or motivation going forward, it's not like he's going to kill himself or anything.
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