Writers' Suicides

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Originally Posted by PeterL

There's an easy way around that. You could slay yourself in the nude, which would save the clothes from being stained, if you did do hari kari.

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No way, dude! That's even worse --

though not as bad as having my punchline ruined. Aw, I kid, I kid.

Lists like that aren't very useful, if one is looking for cause of death for a profession that is noted versus the population at large. All published authors have a public face, while only a very small percentage of bartenders have a public face, and the proportion of wine salesmen is even smaller. My guess is that a high percentage of wine salesmen die from an excess of alcohol, but finding the figures would be difficult.

For another example of a similar list for people who died from drug overdoese. You will notice that many musicians are listed, but you will find few, if any, drug dealers listed.

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Originally Posted by PeterL

Edgar Allan Poe may have died as a result of rabies

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Okay. Have it your own way: Poe went on a drinking binge and was bitten by a mad raccoon.

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Originally Posted by Sebas. Melmoth

Okay. Have it your own way: Poe went on a drinking binge and was bitten by a mad raccoon.

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let's split it down the middle. he was bit by a mad pink elephant

:ladysman:

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Originally Posted by Sebas. Melmoth

Okay. Have it your own way: Poe went on a drinking binge and was bitten by a mad raccoon.

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Actually, the idea that he was fatally injured by some political operatives is also a high possibility, but there was no sign that he had had alcohol when he was found.

I see Dylan Thomas also listed as a suicide. This is also absurd.

First off, the post mortem concluded that pneumonia was the cause of death.

Secondly, alcoholism is a disease, and an alcoholic dying of alcohol poisoning wouldn't be classed as suicide.

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I see Dylan Thomas also listed as a suicide. This is also absurd.

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Some people just think that all writers should commit suicide.

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Originally Posted by PeterL

Some people just think that all writers should commit suicide.

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Unfortunately, those who should not, would and those who should, would not.

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Unfortunately, those who should not, would, and those who should, would not.

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All too true.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
D. A. Levy
Petronius
Abbie Hoffman
Adolf Hitler

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I see Dylan Thomas also listed as a suicide. This is also absurd.

First off, the post mortem concluded that pneumonia was the cause of death.

Secondly, alcoholism is a disease, and an alcoholic dying of alcohol poisoning wouldn't be classed as suicide.

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Ah you got there before me! I was surprised to see him on that list too.

The sharper side of the double edged sword of having a creative mind, it never shuts up, turns down, or switches off.

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

Adolf Hitler

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He was a painter, not a writer.

I thought that Thompson shot himself because he thought that the government was coming after him, I never heard anything about cancer.

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

He was a painter, not a writer.

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Ever heard of Mein Kampf?

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Originally Posted by Desolation

Ever heard of Mein Kampf?

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Apparently he also wrote a fair amount of bad poetry.