“Bondage, sadomasochism and a mixture of drugs and alcohol contributed to the death of a Grimsby man. An inquest heard how Simon Burley (38) of Patrick Street, Grimsby, died after hanging himself in a sex game gone wrong. His girlfriend, Elizabeth Hallam, who took part in the game dressed as a neo-Nazi, was unable to save him… The inquest at Cleethorpes Town Hall heard how Burley was obsessed with hanging, often watching women being hung on the internet. He would also repeatedly watch the film Pierrepoint, telling the story of Britain’s most notorious hangman. Their sex games involved role-playing as one acted as hangman to the other. Ms Hallam described how Burley had given her a knife to cut the noose if anything happened — but after he had kicked away the chair, she realised the knife was blunt. Coroner Stewart Atkinson questioned whether Mr Burley had been aware of this and if the game had been a charade. He said it was impossible to know whether he had killed himself. In a statement, Mr Burley’s friend Anton Hamilton said: ‘I would not describe Simon as being suicidal at the time of his death.’ Neighbour Leslie Walker told the court he had heard the couple arguing around the time he died. Ms Hallam denied this at the inquest, saying what Mr Walker had heard was probably part of the couple’s game.” — Grimsby Telegraph (UK)

(Thanks to Furpo for the link.)

It’s funny how the word Nazi jumps out at you from a story that already features a morbid sexual obsession and a gruesome death. It makes you realize just how loaded the word remains. A guy can hang himself — not a pretty sight — and the image that remains in your mind is his girlfriend wearing a swastika armband or something. Maybe she even shaved one of those little square Hitler mustaches into her pubes. Giving her head would be like kissing the führer.

Of course, it’s not nice to make light of this tragedy. A similar story of death by misadventure once caused a widow to write PervScan bitterly protesting the fact that her husband’s death, which she claimed was misrepresented by the press, was forever memorialized on a site dedicated to perversion. What do you say to such a person? Sincerest condolences for your loss. It can be traumatic to lose a loved one in any way, and perhaps a pervy way is even more painful for you to contemplate.

At the same time, you have to recognize that a person such as Mr. Burley is bound to fascinate. What he did — literally pursuing pleasure right to the edge of death — is something that few people do. It is unfortunate that he slipped over the edge and died (for whatever reason: suicidal impulses, reckless lack of caution, other folks better remember to sharpen the blade). This doesn’t make him a hero, there’s nothing noble about his death. But it does make him a sort of casualty of pleasure. He’s like one of those crazy soldiers who rush into no man’s land without heed for their lives. Mr. Burley stepped outside the bounds of pleasure. And like the crazy soldier, what did he discover there? Death.

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