Yesterday, kung fu master and all around badass David Carradine passed away. The 72-year-old actor was found dead in Bangkok in a hotel room. Apparently, he hung himself and it's believed he committed suicide.

"David was one of the first actors I ever worked with when I started my career and the closest person to a brother that I ever had in my life," said actor Michael Madsen, who actually played David's brother in Kill Bill. "It is shocking to me that he is no longer with us."

Now, there's a rumor going around today that David did himself in like the dude from INXS, strangling himself for the sexual thrill before everything went horribly wrong. I don't believe it. If David Carradine was going to choke himself to improve sex, he'd get three geishas to do it while standing on hot coals and wrestling a dragon. That is more his thing. Such a pity, the world has truly lost one of it's great masters.