Death becomes them
Subtitle: unearthing the suicides of the brilliant, the famous and the notorious
By: Alix Strauss.
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Harper
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780061728563
Subjects: Celebrities -- Suicidal behavior; Celebrities -- Death; Entertainers -- Suicidal behavior; Entertainers -- Death
Description: Takes a provocative cultural and historical look at the icons who have committed suicide, from Virginia Woolf to Kurt Cobain, Diane Arbus to Sigmund Freud, and Vincent van Gogh to Hunter S. Thompson.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: unearthing greatness; title: Grave intentions; title: The art of the suicide note; title: Authors; title: Virginia Woolf, drowning; title: Ernest Hemingway, shotgun; title: Hunter s. Thompson, shotgun; title: Sylvia Plath, inhaling natural gas, oven; title: Annie Sexton, carbon monoxide; title: Additional facts; title: Actors; title: Spalding Gray, jumping; title: Dorothy Dandridge, pills; title: Peg Entwistle jumping from the 'h' of the 'hollywood(land' sign; title: David Strickland, hanging; title: Additional facts; title: Musicians; title: Ian Curtis, hanging; title: Kurt Cobain, shotgun; title: Elliott Smith, stabbing; title: Michael Hutchence, hanging; title: Additional facts; title: Artists; title: Vincent van Gogh, shotgun; title: Diane Arbus, slit wrists and pills; title: Mark Rothko, slit wrists and pills; title: Additional facts; title: Cartoon and comic strips; title: Powerful people; title: Adolf hitler, pistol and cyanide; title: Sigmund Freud, morphine overdose; title: Alan Turing, poisoned apple; title: Abbie Hoffman, pills; title: Additional facts; title: The ten spot; title: Questionable deaths you've heard of...and 10 you might not have; title: Most famous murder/suicides; title: Celebrities who killed themselves in hotels; title: Most notable suicides for sports figures; title: Of the most bizarre/gruesome suicides; title: Greatest love story - suicides of cleopatra and antony among others; title: Stolen headstones and ashes; title: List of 75 attempted suicides.