Includes bibliographical references (pages301-322).
Contents
Introduction: unearthing greatness -- Grave intentions -- The art of the suicide note -- Authors -- Virginia Woolf -- Ernest Hemingway -- Hunter S. Thompson -- Sylvia Plath -- Anne Sexton -- Authors unearthed -- Actors -- Spalding Gray -- Peg Entwistle -- Dorothy Dandridge -- David Strickland -- Actors unearthed -- Musicians -- Ian Curtis -- Kurt Cobain -- Elliott Smith -- Michael Hutchence -- Musicians unearthed -- Artists -- Vincent van Gogh -- Diane Arbus -- Mark Rothko -- Artists unearthed -- Powerful people -- Adolf hitler -- Sigmund Freud -- Alan Turing -- Abbie Hoffman -- Powerful people unearthed -- Fascinating facts -- Ten questionable deaths you've heard of-- and ten you might not have -- Tan cases of suicide-- or murder? -- Not the suite life : ten hotel suicides -- Ten most notable suicides of sports figures -- Ten of the most bizarre & gruesome suicides -- A great love : the suicides of Cleopatra and Mark Antony -- Grave matters -- Attempted suicides.