Talk:Stephen Milligan

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Public awareness[edit]

...led to a greater public awareness of auto-erotic asphyxiation and self-bondage and their risks.

Yeh, every cloud has a silver lining!

That last sentence needs some work.

It is true that it greatly increased awareness in the UK of autoerotic asphyxia; it gained considerable media coverage. Prior to Milligan's death, most people knew little or nothing about the practice, for many people, it was the first time they had heard of it. Biographies 2 (talk) 13:57, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Back door key[edit]

A colleague of mine, who is rather strange, had a back-door key to Stephen Milligan's house at the time of his death. We were 12/13 at the time. I never found out why he had the key and the colleague (then good friend) went very strange a few years later and now doesn't talk to anybody and is an alcoholic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.223.81.88 (talk) 09:13, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That orange[edit]

Orange, or orange segment?
There is much speculation on the web that he had used the orange as a way of self-administering amyl nitrite. Does anyone have an authoritative cite (such as, say, the coroner's report) either confirming or refuting this?

-- The Anome 11:27, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[This blog http://www.newsmedianews.com/milligan.shtml] claims that amyl nitrite was not found, and that this removed a major plank from the misadventure theory, but then there is the "wake up" theory of citrus fruit below. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.251.226.41 (talk) 22:26, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is also some suggestion that it was not suicide at all: http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1996/223/223p22.htm

The coroner's verdict was "death by misadventure". Nobody's suggesting it was suicide.

Segments of citrus fruit are used to "wake up" when somebody is almost passed out during autoerotic asphyxiation. This is well known. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.174.181.141 (talk) 06:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does anyone have more information about his policies, career, etc. - i.e., his LIFE? An article that mentions the injustice of disproportionate focus on his death could itself have more than a couple of lines on his time on earth before his corpse was discovered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.241.83.99 (talk) 15:47, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly the media seems to have little more to say about the man than stranglewank. --86.177.220.63 (talk) 00:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it was such a spectacularly bizarre and lurid way to die that he would probably have to be a major celebrity - Hollywood superstar, or global political figure or similar - to avoid his achievements being overshadowed by it. The bad timing of being the definitive final blow to Major's "Back To Basics" campaign must have sealed his legend too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.168.114 (talk) 23:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Date of death.[edit]

Should his date of death not be given as "c. 5 February 1994," as this is an assumption rather than certain fact? P M C 19:13, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In any event, it seems rather odd that his death of date is given as both 5 February 1994 and 7 February 1994 on the page. It's a shame that there hasn't been discussion on the matter as it's rather difficult to reach a consensus without it. --GusF (talk) 20:11, 16 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relationship with Julie Kirkbride[edit]

The 'details box' and the 'Personal life' section give conflicting information on this. Could someone please check their sources? Harfarhs (talk) 22:12, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]