If Edgar Allen Poe lived in the 1990,s.......?

Question

would he still have died naked in the snow?

Answer 1

Self-destructive people will always find a way to self-destruct no matter what decade or century they live in (ie Kurt Cobain).

Answer 2

The story about Poe dieing drunk in the streets of Baltimore is one of those great, but untrue stories found in literature.

The precise cause of Poe's death is disputed. Dr. Snodgrass was convinced that Poe died as a result of alcoholism and did a great deal to popularize this interpretation of the events. He was, however, a supporter of the temperance movement who found Poe a useful example in his work. Later scholars have shown that his account of Poe's death distorts facts to support his theory.

Dr. John Moran, the physician who attended Poe, stated in his own 1885 account that "Edgar Allan Poe did not die under the effect of any intoxicant, nor was the smell of liquor upon his breath or person." This was, however, only one of several, sometimes contradictory, accounts of Poe's last days which he published over the years, so his testimony cannot be considered entirely reliable.

Cholera cannot be ruled out. While in Richmond during the summer of 1849, Poe wrote letters to his aunt, Maria Clemm (July 7th), and to a newspaperman, E.H.N. Patterson (July 19th and August 7th), in which he confided that he may have contracted cholera in Philadelphia. Cholera is also a theme in three of his short stories ("The Masque of the Red Death"; "The Sphinx"; "Bon-Bon").

Numerous other theories have been proposed over the years, including several forms of rare brain disease, diabetes, various types of enzyme deficiency, syphilis, the idea that Poe was shanghaied, drugged, and used as a pawn in a ballot-box-stuffing scam during the election that was held on the day he was found,[2] and, more recently, rabies. The rabies death theory was proposed by Dr. R. Michael Benitez, and is based upon the fact that Poe's symptoms before death are similar to those displayed in a classic case of rabies.[5] Cats play a prominent part in many of his stories, and it is conjectured that he was accidentally bitten by a rabid pet.

In the absence of contemporary documentation (all surviving accounts are either incomplete or published years after the event; even Poe's death certificate, if one was ever made out, has been lost), it is likely that the cause of Poe's death will never be known.

Answer 3

If Edgar Allen Poe lived in the 1990's....He would've been a "cutter" instead of a Absinthe drinker

Answer 4

he would not have been penniless, and therefore destined to die in the snow. Poe was broke, he was severely unhappy, and I am not sure anyone could or would have saved him. However, the market for his stories would have been much greater and he may have been made happier by critical acceptance. If nothing else he could have gotten student loans to pay for his education after his benefactor stopped financing his gambling and drinking issues.

Answer 5

Considering how far we've come along in the area of psychology, Poe woud probably end up in weekly therapy and given a prescription for some form of antidepressants. And instead of writing melancholy poetry and horror stories, he'd probably have a journal in which he would talk about his childhood and how it affected him emotionally up into his adult years, and then he would die of old age. Clothed. And in bed.

Answer 6

nope cuz he would have fallen asleep and someone would have called the cops or something like that and he would have ended up in the hospital with tubes and would end up going to AA meetings...and just died old

Answer 7

This may be irrelevant, but he didn't die naked in the snow. Drunk in the snow, true, but not naked.

Answer 8

he would have been a total Goth.