If you go to Youtube and type in 'suicidal senator' it brings up videos of a Pennsylvania senator named Budd Dwyer. He called a press conference, invited in reporters, photographers and TV crews. When they were all assembled, he pulled out a .357 Magnum and shot himself. It's real. Nothing sexual in it, however. He was up on corruption charges that were a politically-motivated set-up according to him.
The Budd Dwyer suicide is -however disturbing- incredibly sad. I find his speech beforehand almost harder to watch than the actual suicide. The guy that testified against him later admitted that he gave a false testimony to cut his own prison sentence. So for all I know the guy could've been innocent.
The video of his suicide at the time wasn't aired live, but that didn't stop the media from showing afterwards.
