Creativity and Suicide

Well, it happened again. Some writer I enjoyed reading killed him/herself. This time it was Hunter S. Thompson. I thought why does this happen so often so i started researching it. The two both interesting site were

Signs of Suicidal Tendencies Found Hidden in Dead Poets Writings
http://www.namiscc.org/newsletters/July01/suicideprevention.htm

Scanning Literary Verse for Literal Clues to Suicides from: The Los Angeles Times - August 27, 2001 by Renee Tawa http://www.plathonline.com/articles/LAT082701.html

I tried to make a list of wroters who committed suicide and came up with the following list in less than 15 minutes. I'm sure there are many I missed

Richard bratigan 49 suicide
Hunter S Thompson suicide
Edward Abby, 62 long illness
Ernest Hemingway suicide
Jack Kerouas 47, alcohol related causes
Sylvia Plath, 30, killed herself in 1963
John Berryman, Pulitzer Prize-winning poets, leaped off a bridge
Anne Sexton, poet, 45, left her car running in a closed garage
Sylvia Plath, celebrated poet and novelist, who stuck her head in a gas oven
Hart Crane,
Sergei Esenin,
Adam L. Gordon,
Randall Jarrell,
Vladimir Mayakovsky,
Sarah Teasdale
Stefan Zweig Austrian-born writer, he and his wife committed suicide together; in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 1942 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/szweig.htm
Natalie Jackson, not a writer but hung out with the likes of jack kerouc Neal Cassidy, William Burroughs, she slit her throat and fell off a roof to her death