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    Stand-up comic Freddie Prinze, left, star of NBC's hit "Chico And The Man," (with co-star Jack Albertson) committed suicide on Jan. 29, 1977, at the age of 22. Heavy quaalude use was blamed for his depression. Prinze is the father of actor Freddie Prinze, Jr.

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Celebrity death and murder is shocking enough. But nothing perhaps grips the public more than the tragedy that is celebrity suicide. Why do people who seemingly have everything decide that life is not worth living? What drives them to it? And could anything have been done to prevent it? Sadly, the only people who can usually answer those questions take the answers with them to the grave.

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