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May 8, 1992 · He left a legacy in the form of his suicide note: By early May, when the message had made headlines all over, the world knew it had a classic farewell on its hands. "Dear World," Sanders...
- Kevin Carter
- Adolf Hitler
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Per “Dead” Ohlin
- Christine Chubbuck
- Kurt Cobain
- Virginia Woolf
- Jiah Khan
- George Sanders
- Sid Vicious
The man behind the lens of one of the most sepulchral photograph of the century – a Sudanese child, starved almost to death, crouching with her head buried in her tiny hands while a vulture awaits her death so that it could devour the corpse. A jarring image of poverty, destitute and famine, the photograph, fetched Carter the Pulitzer prize in 1994...
Having spent 40 hours inside a bunker with his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, Hitler realized that there was no escape from the Red Army. He had also come to know of the fall of his friend, Benito Mussolini and how he was cut into pieces and thrown into the gutter by the Italian Partisans. Adolf Hitler, was too proud to let himself or his wife die i...
The man on whose life, the Johnny Depp starrer Fear and Loathing in Las Vegaswas made, Hunter S. Thompson was the inventor of what we call today the Gonzo journalism – a style where the reporter becomes a part of the story and often writes in first person narrative. Thompson was in his “Fortified Compound” called Owl Farm, Colorado where he shot hi...
The lyricist and front-man of the Norwegian black metal band, Mayhem, Per Ohlin was better known by his stage name, Dead. Melancholic, dark, depressed and strange were the attributes given to him by his band mates. Not only would he wear corpse makeup onstage, he would also bury his clothes and dig them up before gigs to look like a corpse. Once, a...
Christine Chubbuck, an American news reporter shot herself with a gun when she was on air, presenting a live television broadcast. This may not have been ideally a part of the list of suicide notes had she not included the act as a part of the script. Christine had convinced the channel to make a show on suicides and she had also researched on vari...
Front-man of American grunge rock legends, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was found dead at his residence on April 8, 1994. According to Forensic reports, 27 year old Kurt had blown his head off with a shotgun. Cobain was said to have suicidal tendencies long before he shot to fame and during the 1991 European tour of Nirvana, Cobain suffered from acute stom...
It might be a little morbid and inhuman to consider a suicide note as a piece of literature but Virginia Woolf’s last letter was no less than one. One of England’s most gifted author, Virginia Woolf was quite artistic in the way she died as well. On March 28, 1941, Woolf filled the pockets of her overcoat with stones and drowned herself in River Ou...
Jiah Khan was quite promising an actress who made her debut in Bollywood with Ram Gopal Verma’s Nishabd in 2007. Jiah’s career was moving fine with two of her films, Ghajini and Housefullmaking it into the 100 Crore grosser Club. However, her relationship with Bollywood actor Sooraj Pancholi didn’t end well which prompted her to end her life. Jiah ...
Author, singer-songwriter, music composer and television actor, George Sander’s suicide note, though tragic, was perhaps the most bad-ass suicide note ever to be written by a celebrity. Sanders, in bis later years, suffered from dementia and is health was worsened fast. He was deeply saddened by the fact that he needed someone else’s help to carry ...
Sid Vicious was a prominent member of one of the most notorious and followed punk rock bands in history, Sex Pistols. Sid was slowly recovering from a prolonged period of substance abuse but got hold of some heroin at a party handed over to him by his photographer friend, Peter Kodick. Sid apparently took enormous amounts of heroin and died in his ...
Apr 26, 1972 · BARCELONA, April 25 (UPI) —George Sanders, the suave sophisticate of the movies, died today in a nearby resort hotel of an overdose of sleeping pills. He left two notes, one saying he was...
David Niven wrote in Bring on the Empty Horses (1975), the second volume of his memoirs, that in 1937, his friend George Sanders had predicted that he would commit suicide from a barbiturate overdose when he was 65, and that in his 50s, he had appeared to be depressed because his marriages had failed and several tragedies had befallen him.
Nov 16, 2022 · On April 25, 1972, George Sanders died of an overdose at a hotel in Barcelona. “Dear world,” he wrote in his farewell note. “I am leaving because I am bored.
Jan 3, 2021 · 'Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored...' began his suicide note. In this classic 1954 film, he reveals his cosmic self-contempt
Jan 1, 2001 · In 1972, Broadway and movie actor George Sanders committed suicide at the age of 65 because, he wrote in a note he left, "I am bored." Brian Aherne, himself a famous and distinguished actor, was one of Sanders'close friends.
