Which famous person can you think of that was very moral, intellectual and eventually committed suicide?

Question

I need to come up with a comparison for Quentin Compson from "The Sound and the Fury". It needs to be somebody we all know, a celebrity, a historical figure, somebody from a book, a musician etc. They need to be young, have a sister, be very smart, come from a prominent family, very moral, and eventually commit suicide. They do not have to have all of these traits, just 3/4 of them. HELP!

Anybody come to mind?

Answer 1

Either Ernest Hemingway or his granddaughter Margaux. I'm not sure about the moral part, but check out the sources to get more info on these people.

Good luck with the assignment.

Answer 2

You are thinking of life as consumption. A movie is in the theatre, you go and watch it, and then you're done. From this point of view, you are largely correct: there is only so much to consume at any given time, and it may not be infinite in volume. Though perhaps it would be fair to say that you might not appreciate how MUCH stuff there really is in the universe (if you could visit a different star in our galaxy every minute, this take alone would take you three hundred thousand years). And some astronomers DO suggest that the universe is infinite in size, so there would be no limit to the different kinds of experience you could have. I would suggest, however, that even in a finite life this is a pretty hollow existance. Perhaps instead you should think of life as CREATION. Bringing into being that which is not. The number of things which are-not is infinite and it's hard to see how it could not be. And let us also not overlook the possibility of change. Even if the number of human experiences is limited, why must you only have those? What if in the future you can have a robot body, or surgically graft entirely foreign tissue to your body? We're not so far from that in some ways now. In a way, this is what the future is: naked possibility. Nobody can say for certain what awaits us. How, then, can you honestly suggest that it will run out?

Answer 3

Kurt Cobain

Answer 4

a lot of these people listed here did NOT committ suicide. Judy Garland, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe. All were accidental overdoses...not suicide. Kurt Cobain came to mind first. The man was gifted in so many ways

Answer 5

Margeux Hemingway(former model/actress)
Sister of Muriel Hemingway.
Grand-daughter of Ernest Hemingway,the writer who also committed suicide.

Answer 6

Ernest Hemingway. Suicide runs in his family. One of his granddaughters committed suicide also... Margaux.

Answer 7

Paul Williams from the temptations

Answer 8

Adolf Hitler was one of them or Kurt Cobain was also one who was musician then commited sucide.

Answer 9

marilyn monroe----drugs overdose

judy garland----drug overdose

anne saxson----she's a poet, drug overdose

earnest hemmingway---gunshot

slyvia plath----poet and friend of anne saxton, gas inhaltion

cleopatra-----poison

elvis presly----drug overdose

george sanders----actor, drug overdose

here's a link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicides
http://www.rotten.com/library/death/suicide/famous/
http://www.redpac.com/reviews/archives/000090.html
http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/2-triv.html

hope you find what you need

=)

Answer 10

kurt cobain, is the only one i could think of,