"blake murphy" > wrote in message
...
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:05:27 -0700, Mark Thorson >
> wrote:
>
>>Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>>
>>> hahabogus wrote:
>>> > So like the song says Don't
>>> > worry...be happy (BTW the composer killed himself). A fixed bedtime
>>> > routine works wonders, works kinda like self hypnosis.
>>>
>>> I googled on "Don't worry be happy" and learned from Wikipedia that the
>>> song is by musician Bobby McFerrin. McFerrin is still living. The
>>> phrase is an expression often used by Meher Baba. He was injured in a
>>> car wreck which caused him considerable pain. He died in 1968. While
>>> he did engage in seclusion, meditation, and fasting, and while these may
>>> have contributed to his death in some way, no mention was made of
>>> suicide.
>>
>>Snopes has a full debunking of this urban legend:
>>
>>http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mcferrin.asp
>>
>>Although McFerrin didn't commit suicide, the guy who
>>wrote "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and
>>Smile, Smile, Smile" did in fact commit suicide.
>
> a case of justifiable suicide.

Not if you're one of his loved ones and spend the rest of your life
wondering what you could have done to prevent it. Of course the "you" here
is rhetorical because accusing you, b.m., of having normal human feelings
would be silly.