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Year
Writer
Cause of Death
c. 456 B.C.
Tortoise dropped on head
1535
Execution
1784
Complications from gout
1821
Consumption
1822
Drowning
1837
Mortally wounded in duel
1848
Consumption
1849
Disputed, collapsed while disoriented
1870
Stroke
1900
Meningitis
1910
Pneumonia
Year
Writer
Cause of Death
1936
Execution
1940
Heart Attack
1941
Suicide-Drowning
1941
Peritonitis after swallowing a toothpick
1960
Automobile accident
1961
Suicide-Gunshot
1963
Suicide-Gas oven
1964
Lupus
1970
Suicide-Seppuku
2005
Suicide-Gunshot
2008
Suicide-Hanging
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Writers by Cause of Death Quiz
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Created Oct 3, 2009 in
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RebeccaAMax
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Oct 3rd, 2009 at 04:18 GMT
2 points
That's "Federico."
Aaron_Kashtan
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Oct 3rd, 2009 at 04:18 GMT
4 points
Some of these are pretty tough, but I am thrilled that you included "tortoise dropped on head".
cocky
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Oct 3rd, 2009 at 12:36 GMT
-1 points
How does one commit suicide by drowning?
ellerpants
:
Oct 3rd, 2009 at 16:49 GMT
5 points
By tying a bag full of stones to your ankles, and jumping into a pool. Much like Virginia Woolf did, for example.
steeltown
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Oct 4th, 2009 at 09:51 GMT
2 points
I, too, appreciated the inclusion of the death by tortoise. If only he'd been the one to write "The Frogs" instead of Aristophanes!
Barzuniac
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Oct 14th, 2009 at 10:45 GMT
0 points
How is there any question how one commits suicide by drowning? I mean people drown by accident. Use your imagination.
Chocolatl
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Nov 3rd, 2009 at 06:07 GMT
2 points
You commit suicide by drowning by swimming out into a body of water and not swimming back. How hard is that to understand?
thenastyaetolian
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Dec 11th, 2009 at 14:14 GMT
1 point
You should include Byron, it was quite spectacular. Thanks for Aeschylus! :)
Triffid
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Feb 1st, 2010 at 23:12 GMT
1 point
Jumping off a ship in the open sea is another option for suicide by drowning.
philolag
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May 7th, 2010 at 12:27 GMT
1 point
Alexander Pushkin, as a matter of fact, died in 1837, not in 1847.
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