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Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Died
Written by:
Jim Bernhard
Narrated by:
Daniel Henning
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March 2021
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Famous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters with death-and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance.
Francis Bacon wrote, 'It is as natural to die as to be born,' while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, 'And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone.'
Death often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Moliere collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays.
Edgar Allan Poe was found semicomatose in someone else's clothes shortly before he died. Sherwood Anderson was felled by a toothpick in a martini. Did Dylan Thomas really die of eighteen straight whiskeys? And was it a bottle cap or murder that did in Tennessee Williams?
If these authors have lessons for us, the best may be that of Marcus Aurelius: 'Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.'
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