Resource Tag: BIOGRAPHY

This article provides a list of musicians who died by suicide. Information on each musician includes their name, band, date of birth, & date of death. 44 artists are included in the list. (SC)

The author attempts to shed light on the life of John Eliot, the second British Governor of West Florida, whose seemingly sudden death by suicide in 1769 has remained something of an historical mystery.

This article is a biography of Joey Coyle, the Irish-American who found over $1,000,000 dollars in Philadelphia & died by suicide 10 years after being acquitted of criminal charges. Details about his drug addiction, public support during his trial, & contract with Disney to portray his story are included. His drug-induced paranoia is cited as […]

This article is a biography of Ivar Kreuger, a swedish man who created a large fortune in construction & died by suicide when he lost his fortune during the Depression. Details of his life, counterfeit currency circulation & suicide are included. (1 ref) (SC)

This article relates the life story of Willard Hershberger, a catcher with the Cincinatti Reds. Hershberger committed suicide at the age of 29.

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This is a biography of Jerzy Urman. Urman & his family fled from their home in Stanislawow after the German invasion in 1941. Urman’s father obtained cyanide for the family who agreed they would die together rather than face torture & deportation. The family went into hiding in a nearby town. After a year of […]

In the 17th century, Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam was the only person recorded to have died by suicide in Albany, New York. This biography relates what is known about his life & the events that may have precipitated his suicide at age 68.

This article presents a biography of Nick Traina, son of Danielle Steele. It includes a discussion of his family relations, substance abuse problems, treatment for mental illness & eventual suicide. The author discusses the assertion made by Steele that her son’s illness was genetically inherited from her father. An alternative explanation based on psychodynamic theory […]

This article relates the life story of Sarah Devens, a college athlete who competed in 3 sports. Although very successful, Devens did not seem to enjoy this success. She wanted to quit one of the sports but believed that she could not as it would let other people down if she did. Devens completed suicide […]

This article provides a brief biography of Martin Kruze who had been sexually abused over a period of 7 years by two employees of Maple Leaf Gardens. One of the men who abused Kruze & numerous other victims was sentenced to only two years in prison. Kruze jumped to his death three days after sentence […]

This presentation discussed the career of Dr. Norman Farberow and his contributions to suicidology.

In this excerpt from her forthcoming book, “A Mother’s Story”, Gloria Vanderbilt writes about her 23-year old son’s suicide in 1988.

This article chronicles the life of Gerard de Nerval (Gerard Labrunie) from his birth in 1808 to his suicide by hanging in 1855. It discusses his relationship to his parents, what is known of his relationships with women, progression of his writing career & identification of successes & failures, the squandering of his inheritance, & […]

This article chronicles the life of Lewis Puller from birth (1945) to suicide by a gunshot to his head in 1994. It describes his childhood as the son of a famous USA marine, brief involvement in the Vietnam war which destroyed both legs & damaged both hands, his views on the war, his depression, an […]

This article profiles the childhood of Clare Boothe Luce, her relationships, marriages, & accomplishments as a mangaing editor, congresswoman, playwright, USA Ambassador, & patron of the arts. She died of natural causes at the age of 84. During her marriage to Henry Luce, founder of the “Time,” Clare made at least three suicide attempts, each […]

This article traces the childhood & education of Joseph Goebbels (born in 1897), development of his patriotic fervor, his career, & association with Hitler as his Minister for propaganda. Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 during the battle for Berlin. While Joseph & his wife may have used cyanide to kill themselves, details are […]