None of this being self inflicted of course.

Would that make it any better?

No matter what the circumstances is always sad when someone goes way before their time. R.I.P

LOL
exactly what is he going to say that is going to do anyone any bit of good.

Worst allusion ever?

Try something from film noir.

As someone who has tried to commit suicide before, I can say I understand sort of but the type of individual that tends to do this, like brandi seems to have been, would not go out as quietly as this seems. she'd try to leave some kind of message behind, in my opinion anyway. rest in peace, if true

sad news
tc

Scanning through 2p2 several times today i saw the RIP Brandi thread title and did not think for one second it actually meant that she was dead. I assumed it was something like she had been banned or something and never even bothered to open the thread.

Then I saw it posted in another poker forum that she had died. And it surprisingly hit me as I wouldn't have expected since the girl was a total stranger to me. But as soon as I realized that she had died I got a lump in my throat and felt very sad.

Played with her at the Bike with Amir....such a waste....via con dios girl.

Reminds me eerily of the South Park with Britney Spears that was parodying The Lottery... Very very creepy.
RIP

well, brandi got what she wanted: to never read this forum again. i unfortunately did not.

Maybe he is showing some dignity and responding in private to the family, hardly the time for having a go at any one. A famous friend of mine killed himself in a horrible bizarre way and at least 99% of the media and people tried to remember the great things about him and his life and NOT his many flaws and mess ups.

May you find peace now Brandi

On my second to last trip to Vegas, I saw Brandi at Caesars. She was a beautiful girl. For anyone that knew and liked Brandi, I am sorry for your loss.

I am sad right now because I read many of her posts and because I know that 26 is way too young for someone (read: anyone) to die, especially by suicide.

RIP, Brandi.

-Lew

When I imagine the pain, suffering, and loneliness that she must have been going through to make this ultimate decision - it makes me quite sad.

R.I.P. Brandi

It means it says alot about the type of average poster in NVG, when they have to be warned that they will be banned if they just add to the grief of the people that are currently mourning Brandi.
This is something I didn't talk about at all, I never said she should be forgiven for anything, what I said was that it should put things into a new context now that we have actual proof that she was suffering from a mental illness, instead of thinking she may have, etc. or it appearing she did, (this applies to the average NVG'er and not the people who knew her and may have tried to get her the help she needed). Thinking back on all her antics now, knowing that she was actually disturbed, and not just an attention seeking, fame seeking wannabe celebrity (again the chicken and the egg point here, but still), puts a different slant on things, at least IMO.
I'm not sure if you are talking about deleting the old threads, but I'd disagree with that, what's done is done now, and shouldn't be forgotten, using the old saying that people should learn from the past, if everything that bad happened in the past could be just "deleted" then what are we supposed to learn from and use as a future reference.

I stumbled across this on the net. It was posted on a ex-pat visa site under the name Naami Dea (the name Brandi changed hers to) on March 10 2008.


http://www.siamexpats.com/forum/inde...t=0&#entry5630

brandi, i hope that you find your zia.

sleep well.

I can understand the negative comments. Her death doesn't make all the bad things go away.

However, the outpouring of emotion is understandable. It's not just generic respect for the dead. Death happens every day. It's about pitying her life. It's a realization of how miserable she was when she did the things that entertained us.

Suicide is much different than any other form of death. Brandi and Chip are going to have different emotional impacts. By most accounts, Chip led a solid, enjoyable life and then it happened to end. Brandi's death is not the same. Her death is a direct result of a miserable life.

When most people die, you focus on the good things of their lives -- the people they touched and the happiness they experienced. But in the case of suicide, it's just not the same. The death was not a random result. The death was caused by that person hating a majority of his or her life. You just can't write it off in the same way. There's no positive spin. It's far more gripping and heart-wrenching.

Her death doesn't really make me feel that bad. It's her life that does.

My condolences to Brandi's family and friends. It always greatly saddens me when someone takes their own life, especially someone so young, as I can only imagine the heartache they were feeling.
R.I.P and may God be with your loved one's.

I confirmed with the LA County coroner's office today.

Thanks Gary. Maybe that will put all that to rest.

I had like 2pms with her and one was of which i sent her a myspace link and poker question. I dont even know this girl, and I echo the sentiment of alot when you cant help but feel sadness and sorrow. Her life, her story was open book for all of us its just sad that this is how the final chapter unfolded. You also have to be heartless not to get a lump in your throat when you read her Thailand post in a non poker forum. Looks like she was trying and thats all we could of ask of her or anyone.

RIP Brandi

May god have mercy on your soul

I am sad that she did not find the help she needed to overcome her problems. However, the idea that 2p2 could have helped her is not realistic. We saw in her threads that some people very close to her did more than can be expected of anyone to try to help her, and it never had a positive outcome.

So if the people closest to her couldn't help her, what could a general forum population do except respond to her the way a forum does? Her posts often had the intent to represent someone she knew in real life in an extremely negative light, and we know that at least in some cases (and maybe all), these were gross misrepresentations. The forum posters were letting her know in their various ways that this was not acceptable. Those that played into her attention seeking fed her spiral more than those who were willing to call her out on her crap.

Maybe it was possible to restrain that feedback in some ways because she showed she may have been in a fragile mental state (which turned out to be true), but she also made it seem possible she was leveling all of us. Unfortunately, this was not the case, and it is a sad end of the story. This forum was just a reflection of what was going on in her life, though, not the driver of it.

Very sad news. Brandi brought a lot of entertainment and drama to 2+2 and the poker world in general. She will be missed by the many who knew of her both personally and through these forums.

RIP Brandi.

Even though I have only posted a few times I have read alot of threads, Brandi ones included. Like many on here I followed the story and laughed at some of the posts, not really knowing how ill she was or thinking how much trouble she was really in. No matter what people thought of her (including people she burned) I doubt it anyone would wish this end.
Anyway R.I.P and I wish the best for her family at this time.

BoOm