Self-Help Radio Host Couple Commit Suicide Together in Brooklyn Apartment
Together Forever: Lynne Rosen, 46, a psychotherapist, and John Littig, 48, a motivational speaker committed suicide together in their Brooklyn apartment. Image by Youtube
A Brooklyn couple that hosted a self-help radio show together were found dead in their apartment on Monday. The couple appeared to have suffocated themselves with plastic bags in a double-suicide, according to the New York Daily News.
Lynne Rosen, 46, a psychotherapist, and John Littig, 48, a motivational speaker and musician, hosted “The Pursuit of Happiness” on a local radio station, WBAI-FM, for the last six years. Their show focused on providing self-help tips to callers.
The couple also worked as life coaches for a business they started called Why Not Now. Their website lists their mission as “Life coaching designed to help foster and encourage your inner strengths, identify hidden and untapped resources, and put you confidently on the path to designing the life you’ve always wanted to live.”
Police found two notes in Rosen and Littig’s apartment, according to the Daily News. The tone of the notes expressed regret over their actions and a commitment to die together.
The couple had been together for 20 years and were often found walking their dog in the Park Slope neighborhood where they lived, reported the New York Post.
Rosen’s personal website, which was still active as of Wednesday afternoon, included a quote from author Norman Vincent Peale, that said, “It’s always too early to quit.”
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
