What are some other lit deaths that were not the actions of sorrow or depression?
There was that one Dada artist that decided to row across the Atlantic in a rowboat and was never seen again. For the life of me I can't remember his name.
>>21802535He didn't plan it or anything. He just jumped in a rowboat in his street clothes and started rowing. It kills me that I can't remember his name.
>>21802581That sounds like it must have been a "this is either my suicide or I'll endure a great trial and find new meaning in life" kind of situation, and/or a psychotic break
Is getting shot in a duel lit?
>>21802498>>21802535>>21802620BASED>>218026081NC3L LIL CUNT
>>21802498Mishima was absolutely obsessed with suicide his entire life. I don't deny there was a political element to his death, but it was also most assuredly driven by sorrow and depression.
Byron dying while trying to remove kebab from GreeceWould have been better if he had died in battle rather than dying of fever and getting bled by quack doctors but his heart was in the right place.
>>21802498In October 1913, Bierce, then age 71, departed from Washington, D.C., for a tour of his old Civil War battlefields. According to some reports, by December he had passed through Louisiana and Texas, crossing by way of El Paso into Mexico, which was in the throes of revolution. In Ciudad Juárez he joined Pancho Villa's army as an observer, and in that role he witnessed the Battle of Tierra Blanca.It was reported that Bierce accompanied Villa's army as far as the city of Chihuahua. His last known communication with the world was a letter he wrote there to Blanche Partington, a close friend, dated December 26, 1913. After closing this letter by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," he vanished without a trace, his disappearance becoming one of the most famous in American literary history.Despite an abundance of theories, Bierce's ultimate fate remains a mystery. He wrote in one of his final letters: "Good-bye. If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags, please know that I think it is a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico--ah, that is euthanasia!"
>>21802596It's not that deep, he was just being a dadaist
>>21802685>To be a Gringo in Mexico--ah, that is euthanasia!Kek
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>>21802620Currently reading a hero of our time. It feels like a parody of typical romantic stories of the period. Pechorin is your classic Byronic hero, but instead of being a larger than life figure, he's just a brooding borderline sociopath who makes everything worse for everyone. The first half is almost hilarious since it is essential a tragic romance being recounted by a secondary character, who is forced to watch as things fall apart.
>>21802620>Meanwhile, in the same salons his Cadet school friend Nikolai Martynov, dressed as a native Circassian, wore a long sword, affected the manners of a romantic hero not unlike Lermontov's Grushnitsky character. Lermontov teased Martynov mercilessly until the latter couldn't stand it anymore. On 25 July 1841, Martynov challenged his offender to a duel.The fight took place two days later at the foot of Mashuk mountain. Lermontov allegedly made it known that he was going to shoot into the air. Martynov was the first to shoot and he aimed straight into the heart, killing his opponent on the spotIs it a requirement for famous Russian authors to die the most random, frivolous way imaginable?
I suppose you could argue it was sorrow in part, though
>>21803746>>21804386Well damn, I should scrolled down first
Tennessee Williams died from having the cap from a nasal spray bottle lodged in his air passageway.Sherwood Anderson chocked on a toothpick.
>>21802535Fpbp
>>21802685He died the way he lived: a cheeky bastard. I’ll pour him a libation
>>21802596Kind of like walking around during a bombing?
>>21802498Petronius - forced suicide at the hands of Nero. He cut his veins and then stitched them up to prevent sudden death which is metal.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PetroniusHe didn’t spend his last hours in philosophic discourse but rather he spent them discussing trivial, lighthearted matters and telling jokes.
>>21802535Arthur Cravan
>>21804861>Arthur CravanHoly shit THANK you. That was figuratively killing me.
Socrates
>>21802662Obsessed with suicide = depression? Mishima just saw the emptiness of most people’s attempts to cope with mortality and wanted to choose a different path
>>21804828>Gaius Petronius Arbiter[1] (/pJˈtroʊniəs/; Classical Latin: [ˈɡaː.i.ʊs pɛˈt̪roː.ni.ʊs ˈar.bJ.t̪ɛr]; c. AD 27 – 66;>sometimes Titus Petronius Niger)
>>21802498He got cucked by his own wife, and he went to Chad's home, saying that he would kill him.He was killed instead, and his wife married Chad afterwards.
