Christine Chubuck Summary

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To summarize this article, it is about a lady name Christine Chubbuck the first person to kill themselves on live TV by putting a gun to her head. Christine was a local television news reporter during the 70’s. Christine suffered from depression for many years and her parents spent over one million dollars over 20 years on psychiatrists and psychologists to help her. Her friends and family claim that Christine was the type of person who wanted to be seen and heard but deeply disturbed but also desperately tried to live with a debilitating mental illness and personal and professional disappointment but suffer from an extreme sense of isolation and low self-esteem. Even she made a name for herself she was still unhappy with her life and never

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