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Lynne Rosen was a psychotherapist who co-hosted the show ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ with motivational speaker John Littig. The Brooklyn couple committed suicide together last week.
A Brooklyn couple who hosted a radio show called “The Pursuit of Happiness” committed suicide together by putting plastic bags over their heads and inhaling helium.
Lynne Rosen was a psychotherapist who co-hosted the monthly show on WBAI-FM with motivational speaker John Littig, police said Wednesday.
The doomed duo was found dead Monday in their Park Slope home, and police have not offered any explanation as to why they chose to take their own lives.
But both Rosen, 46, and Littig, 48, were in the business of telling people how to live theirs.
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Psychotherapist Lynne Rosen promised customers a ‘fresh perspective’ on her website.
Once a month for one hour, they took to the airwaves and doled out advice on how to be your best self.
“People get scared to make changes, right, and to step out of that comfort zone,” Rosen said on the April show.
“Alternatively, you can get comfortable with change,” Litting piped in.
“Yeah, I like that,” Rosen gushed. “That’s great.”
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Motivational speaker John Littig performed as a drummer on the side.
“No change, no life,” Littig said.
“It’s very exciting to change and to grow,” Rosen responded.
Rosen posted what she called a video “rap” on her website where she offered more advice.
“Push yourself when there’s nothing left to go on,” she says. “Remember, positivity is precious. … Try something spontaneous, sexually or otherwise.”
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John Littig ‘was an exceptionally nice person’ a longtime neighbor says.
On Rosen’s website, she made this promise:
“I will help you look at your problems from a fresh perspective, and overcome the inner obstacles that may be holding you back. I offer a free phone consultation so you can ask questions and get a clearer idea of how I work.”
Littig was described on the site as a “motivational speaker, workshop facilitator and personal life coach.”
He was also a drummer who performed as “Jadex” and posted a video of a surreal song called “Beautiful Dreams” where he pounds the skins while dressed in white.
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John Littig performs as Jadex with two bikini-clad women.
Littig’s video also features two bikini-clad babes covered in paint.
Rosen and Littig chose to end it all sometime over the last week, police said.
Neighbors were stunned in the 10-unit brownstone where they couple lived for two decades. They said they noticed a foul smell coming from their first-floor apartment earlier this week, and the super kicked in the door after noticing blood dripping down into the basement through their floor.
He found them in the living room.
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Psychotherapist Lynne Rosen told listeners they had to become comfortable with change.
“I knew them for many years,” said an 87-year-old neighbor, who declined to give his name. “They were always respectable.”
Littig, the neighbor said, was very helpful and kind. “He was an exceptionally nice person,” he said.
Rosen, however, “was kind of a cold fish,” the neighbor said.
“This is terrible,” he said. “I’m shocked of course. The world lost a very nice person. He was the salt of the earth.”
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Lynne Rosen co-hosted the monthly show on WBAI-FM.
Elizabeth Pongo, 39, a personal trainer who lives in the brownstone next door, said she knew them by sight and sometimes heard Littig practicing his drumming.
“I feel so sorry for them,” said Pongo.
Police have not said when the couple ended it all. But neighbors said they were told they had been dead for a week before they were found. And while a sheet of plastic covered the door to their apartment, building workers were spraying air freshener through the halls.
The super “looked so devastated,” Pongo said. “He had gone to the basement, and he could smell it. There was blood coming down into the basement. There was a lot of heat last week.”
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John Littig posted a video of a surreal song called ‘Beautiful Dreams.’
Pongo said it continues to linger.
“I could smell it all day yesterday,” she said. “At first I thought it was a dead squirrel, but it was much stronger than that.”
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