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  1. Palmer died by suicide with an overdose of barbiturates on October 23, 1967, [9] after a series of illnesses spanning 13 years. [citation needed] She wrote in her suicide note:

  2. Mar 15, 2023 · In pain, Helen Geisel took her own life by consuming a deadly dose of barbiturates on October 23 rd, 1967. She left a heartrenching suicide note that began “Dear Ted” and read in part, per Medium:

  3. LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 23-- Mrs. Helen Geisel, the wife of Theodor Seuss Geisel, who writes children's books under the name of Dr. Seuss, died in her sleep today at her home here. She was in...

  4. May 3, 2020 · Helem Palmer committed suicide in October 1967 at the age of 68. She had left a sucide note for her husband prior to taking her final breath. Her note read: Dear Ted, What has happened to us? I don’t know. I feel myself in a spiral, going down down down, into a black hole from which there is no escape, no brightness.

    • Dr. Seuss’ real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel. A grandson of German immigrants, Theodor (without an “e”) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904.
    • Teddy Roosevelt left Dr. Seuss with a permanent case of stage fright. Affirming the loyalties of his German-American family during World War I, 14-year-old Ted Geisel was one of Springfield’s top sellers of war bonds.
    • Bootleg gin was responsible for the Dr. Seuss pseudonym. It certainly wasn’t a scene out of “Animal House,” but on the night before Easter in 1925, the local police chief caught Dartmouth College senior Ted Geisel partying with his friends and a pint of bootleg gin.
    • Dr. Seuss was a 'madman.' Dr. Seuss achieved early success writing and illustrating humorous advertisements for Flit, a bug spray manufactured by Standard Oil.
  5. Mar 2, 2017 · Helen Palmer Geisel died of suicide in 1967 after a prolonged illness. Geisel remarried and became a stepfather to Audrey Stone Diamond’s children, but history has not recorded what became...

  6. Nov 29, 2000 · In the wake of their affair, Mr. Geisel's wife, Helen, committed suicide, causing, as Mrs. Geisel puts it, ''a rather large ripple in the community of La Jolla.'' Mrs. Dimond divorced her...

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