Sounds like a suicide, based on the post his sister made on Facebook:
My dear, sweet little brother,
I’m so sorry we couldn’t save you.
I’m sorry the darkness and pain were so deep, so heavy, that they pulled you somewhere we couldn’t reach.
We tried in all the ways we knew how.
With words, with love, with laughter, with music, with tears.
We reached for you again and again, hoping something…anything, would break through and bring you back to us.
But if all of that couldn’t reach you…
I don’t believe anything could.
And that is the part that hurts the most
knowing how deeply you were loved,
and still not being able to take that pain away from you.
Our hearts are crushed.
There’s a silence now where your voice used to be,
and it echoes in ways I don’t know how to fill.
I will miss our calls.
I will miss your voice messages.
I will miss the way you’d play me music like you were letting me into your world for a moment.
And your voice… it really did sound like heaven.
That’s how I’ll always remember it.
You were more than your pain.
More than the darkness that surrounded you.
You were kind, and real, and full of something that can’t be replaced.
You mattered so much more than I think you ever truly knew.
I wish you could have seen yourself the way we saw you.
I wish you could have felt even a fraction of the love that surrounded you.
Maybe then things would have been different…
but I also know this wasn’t something simple.
It wasn’t something we could fix.
So instead, I hold onto you.
To the memories, the laughter, the music, the moments that were ours.
Those are real. Those are forever.
I hope wherever you are now, the weight is gone.
I hope the darkness has lifted.
I hope you feel peace in a way you couldn’t here.
You were so deeply loved.
You still are.
And you always will be.
I will carry you with me…
in every song, in every quiet moment, in every memory that finds its way back.
Rest now, my sweet brother.
You don’t have to fight anymore.
He does seem to have a deranged, almost schizophrenic look in his photos. You can tell from his facial expressions that his mind is struggling, even going back to the early 2000s.
He's what you'd call an old style southern Dixiecrat. The left today considers 80s/90s style democrats like him as worse than MAGA in a lot of ways. Apostates.
He was also a pro "the world is overpopulated, we must do depopulation" kind of guy. I remember his cameos in multiple civil war movies. He also created Cartoon Network, my favorite kids channel growing up, so that was always a plus. Overall a strange and unique guy. RIP.
He also gave us CNN Headline News, which eventually gave us Nancy Grace. Bastard.
On the plus side though, he gave us WTBS and Atlanta Braves baseball, which he owned. Nothing like coming home inebriated to an empty flat to have baseball to watch because the Braves were on the West Coast.
He was also a pro "the world is overpopulated, we must do depopulation" kind of guy. I remember his cameos in multiple civil war movies. He also created Cartoon Network, my favorite kids channel growing up, so that was always a plus. Overall a strange and unique guy. RIP.
On one hand, Ted Turner founded CNN and was an old school Democrat.
On the other hand, he founded Cartoon Network, which included Adult Swim and Toonami. That entire channel influenced my life so much that I still spend my free time watching old blocks for nostalgia.
There’s a lot of forms of comedy entertainment that wouldn’t have been produced without Adult Swim, and anime wouldn’t have been as popular in the 2000’s.
He also gave us the Atlanta Braves, and as it’s the closest that I’ll get to a hometown team, I’ll be a fan for life. My family’s sat down to watch the games since they began to be broadcast on TV.
Thanks for the entertainment and influencing family bonding, Ted.
Not to be a smartass, but I bet some people don't actually know this one:
Ted Turner stated that CNN would be on the air until the end of the world and that they'd then do a signoff with 'Nearer, My God, to Thee", just like they played on the Titanic. He actually meant it, and got an Army band to play it for this video. It's still kept around even in CNN's digital system for the stated purpose and eventually got leaked to the Internet.
Not to be a smartass, but I bet some people don't actually know this one:
Ted Turner stated that CNN would be on the air until the end of the world and that they'd then do a signoff with 'Nearer, My God, to Thee", just like they played on the Titanic. He actually meant it, and got an Army band to play it for this video. It's still kept around even in CNN's digital system for the stated purpose and eventually got leaked to the Internet.
Ted Turner was also the reason that he made wrestling interesting in the 90s. I don't think he himself was the fundamental failure of WCW, that was relegated to internal management itself (i.e Bischoff and all them). He wasn't afraid of Vince McMahon, even lighting a fire up under his ass to 'git gud' with his product (for better or worse). So, I think even without Ted Turner, Vince wouldn't have found his stride.
