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Re: Lovecraft's Death

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On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 05:05:51 -0800 (PST), bruce turlish
<brturlish@gmail.com> wrote:

>Magister posted:
>"...HPL's bed was very dirty..."
>
>When I read something like the above about HPL, I can envision just how wretched HPL's final days must have been.  I have always thought of Lovecraft as a fussy person who would probably have tended to keep his personal life tidy.  I can imagine that his intestinal cancer must have put him in great pain and probably resulted in his having bloody bowel movements.  The fact that he spent only about 6 days in the hospital before dying suggests to me that he must have stuck it out at home in considerable pain and discomfort before being hospitalized.  Is there anything to suggest that HPL was truly scared of his own death?  His philosophy of cynical materialism would have provided only a limited amount of consolation, I should think.  HPL was a very tragic figure, IMO.  To have died before the age of 50 in virtual poverty is not a nice thing, although I guess it could be argued that HPL was very much a survivor compared to someone like R E Howard. 


Yep.  HPL's death was rotten.  RE Howard's was worse because he blew
his own brains out in his car and left bone splinters and meat all
over the place.

H Beam Piper's has stayed with me since I was a boy and read my
father's Astounding and Analog pulps.  He was an aristocrat and his
death is best descrbed by Jerry Pournelle:

"Piper shut off all the utilities to his apartment, put painter's
drop-cloths over the walls and floor, and took his own life with a
handgun from his collection. In his suicide note, he gave an
explanation that "I don't like to leave messes when I go away, but if
I could have cleaned up any of this mess, I wouldn't be going away. H.
Beam Piper'"

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