On a US radio show they hosted called The Pursuit of Happiness, John Littig and Lynne Rosen urged listeners to embrace spontaneity.
"So much about life is about impulse," Littig said on a broadcast this year on an FM station in New York, WBAI. "It's about doing it right now."
A shocking decision the couple made together appeared more methodical: Police say they killed themselves side by side as part of a suicide pact.
The bodies of Littig, 47, and Rosen, 45 were discovered on Wednesday on a couch in the couple's brownstone in Brooklyn.
In separate suicide notes, Lettig indicated that they were determined to die together, while Rosen apologised to her family, police said. But beyond that, why two people who made a living giving advice on how to lead more fulfilling lives decided to cut short their own wasn't clear.
There was no immediate response to a message left on Thursday at WBAI.
"RIP Lynne Rosen + John Littig. Partners on the air and in life," the station wrote in a tweet.
The victims were partners in self-help venture called Why Not Now, according to their website. The site describes Littig as a motivational speaker, workshop facilitator and personal life coach, and Rosen as a life coach, speaker and consultant.
Rosen also was the host of The Pursuit of Happiness, a once-a-month, hour-long show on the left-leaning WBAI. She was often joined in the Manhattan studio by Littig.
The pair's breezy banter about life's lessons is on display in YouTube postings of the broadcasts. In one, they mull a famous quote, "Do one thing every day that scares you," attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
"People get scared to make changes and step outside of that comfort zone, right, John?" she says.
"Stepping outside your comfort zone is very important. Or alternatively you can start to get comfortable with change," he responds.
"Yeah! I like that!" she says. "That's great."
And while pondering Albert Einstein's observation, "Imagination is more important than knowledge," Littig espouses the virtues of acting on impulse.
"Intuition, impulse are extraordinarily important things in life," he says. "You will not be well-served if the impulse is shut down or you think about everything too much. Sometimes you just do it."
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Another bust irony meter....
Another bust irony meter....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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And another?......
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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More tragic than funny. Poor judgement to mock people who were just trying to find hope and meaning in their lives but failed.
yrs,
rubato
yrs,
rubato
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Suicide ain't funny!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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I'm sorry, but where did Strop say he thought this was funny? (It's not posted in Laffs)More tragic than funny
He implied it was "ironic", which it surely is....
Is "irony" yet another word that you don't know the meaning of?
That's one you really ought to learn, since you unintentionally engage in so much of it....
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I was also wondering where rubato's idea of the suicide not being funny came from.
Who made any reference to humor in the story before rubato did?
Who made any reference to humor in the story before rubato did?
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I suppose the rube and I fell into the same lingusitic trap.
I have been directly affected by suicide (a relative and two friends).
Sorry, Gob.....my irony comprehension is a little rusty this morning.
I'll let rube offer his own excuse.
I have been directly affected by suicide (a relative and two friends).
Sorry, Gob.....my irony comprehension is a little rusty this morning.
I'll let rube offer his own excuse.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Thanks for taking it as intended guys!
(Dales no worries, as long as you see there was no malice/humour in my posting.)
(Dales no worries, as long as you see there was no malice/humour in my posting.)
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I am making a post to indicate that I am not apathetic.
However I am speechless, what can one say?
I can only hope that their listeners don't follow suit...
However I am speechless, what can one say?
I can only hope that their listeners don't follow suit...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Fixed. (Hey, it is the US of A after all)I can only hope that their listeners don't follow file suit...
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Court-filed cases per 1,000 population, by country:
• Germany 123.2
• Sweden 111.2
• Israel 96.8
• Austria 95.9
• U.S.A. 74.5
• UK/England & Wales 64.4
• Denmark 62.5
• Hungary 52.4
• Portugal 40.7
• France 40.3
Source: Wollschlager, C: Exploring the Global Landscapes of Litigation Rates, Soziologie des Rechts: Festschrift fur Erhard Blankenburg zum 60. (1998).
GAH!