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| Colleen Applegate (aka Shauna Grant) 1963-1984. |
Author’s note: The decision to show this picture on my blog was not one made lightly; for, its ugly and disturbing: the self-inflicted bullet hole can be clearly seen near Colleen’s temple; and her condition was such that she had to be intubated and kept alive by a respirator. This image, combined with some of the gorgeous photographs, taken of Colleen during her short career, serve as powerful contrasts - revealing the deception of porn through its seemingly beauty, and the reality of its evil; also, this goes to heart of our own complacency as a society, and how we [the porn viewer] are ultimately responsible for the countless other deaths in the pornography industry. As an aside, this image also appeared in the excellent 1987 PBS Frontline documentary “Death of a Porn Queen.”