David Carradine

[Loopz]

Seems like there is a bit more information on his death now....

Taken from skynews

David Carradine may have died accidentally from suffocation or heart failure during an auto-erotic sex game, say Thai police.

The Kung Fu and Kill Bill star was found with a noose around his neck and another rope around his genitals in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Bangkok.

Police chief Worapong Chewprecha said a post-mortem had failed to determine the cause of death.

He said it was unclear whether the 72-year-old killed himself or died from suffocation or heart failure due to ejaculation.

Initially, police said the death was being treated as a suspected suicide.

Coroners at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn hospital said they were waiting for the results of a toxicology test.

"We are now running tests and then we will decide the cause of death," the hospital's chief coroner, Nantana Sirisap told reporters.

"This certainly was not a natural cause of death."

Michael Hutchence, singer with band INXS, died in similar circumstances in 1997.

A maid found his naked body in a Sydney hotel room, where he had hanged himself with a leather belt.

Carradine, who was filming in the capital, had failed to appear for a meal with the film crew on Wednesday.

His body was discovered by a hotel maid at the Park Nai Lert hotel the following morning.

Police said there were no signs of a struggle or other suspicious circumstances.

Carradine leaves a wife and three children.

"His family is in shock," said Tiffany Smith, of Carradine's management firm, Binder & Associates.

"They have the same belief we have. There was no way David did this to himself."

Carradine was a member of a Hollywood acting family that included his father, character actor John Carradine, and brother Keith.

He appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorcese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.

One of his prominent early film roles was as singer Woody Guthrie in Ashby's 1976 biopic Bound for Glory.

He was perhaps most famous for his role as the fugitive half Chinese Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the 1970s western TV drama Kung Fu.

[legspin]

Old Grasshopper in wardrobe should not play with ropes.

If you're gonna go you may as well be having a good time.

[Loopz]

indeed. he went with a smile

[tezleyflahflah]

What a quality way to die, brilliant!