The year before, just four months after cutting off his ear, Van Gogh had swallowed some of his paints and turpentine, but his doctor saved him. What’s more, he was struggling with mental health issues practically all of his adult life. This came as no surprise to those close to him, as Van Gogh often talked about death in his letters. One hot summer morning in July of 1890, Vincent Van Gogh succumbed to his self-inflicted gunshot wound. Vincent Van Gogh Photo source: Īlthough Van Gogh wasn’t famous when he took his own life, his act of desperation is still one of the most well-known. The same goes for Cleopatra, who killed herself after Octavian defeated her forces.Īlthough not a cowardly act like Hitler’s, Cleopatra’s suicide still doesn’t really fit this list. An act of desperation after capitulation in WWII, I can’t include it in this list of famous people who committed suicide.
Of course, the most famous suicide in history was that of Adolf Hitler. This list of famous people who committed suicide attests to that. No matter how famous and rich you are, you can’t escape depression. As if depression cares about your bank account or your social status. They have everything - money, fame, popularity - so they should be happy.Īs if life works that way. In fact, they could be even more prone to keeping quiet about what ails them because people generally think that famous people don’t deserve to be sad. When untreated, depression can lead to suicide. This don’t ask, don’t tell policy leads to not only misconception but also people being scared to ask for help. As someone who’s fought many battles on the dreaded fields of depression, I know how gut-wrenching and morose it is.Īs a society, we tend to turn our heads away from mental illness when we should be talking about it. But others are as miserable and prone to depression as the rest of us. What’s more, because they live their lives surrounded by wealth and luxury, we think they couldn’t possibly be missing anything. Because we think they are special, we almost don’t see them as fully human. The likes of Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse and Jim Morrison all lost their lives in tragic circumstances at the age of 27.Either way, I think that it’s peculiar how many people believe that celebrities are untouchable. "They are meeting fellow travellers where they amplify each others suicide, depression, or substance abuse and that gets into an-out-of-control spiral leading to early death.” “The music scene celebrates drugs and promiscuity and valorisation of early death, so young musicians who are depressed and suicidal are attracted to these types of environments," Professor Dianna Kenny told ABC News.
The study also found that suicide among musicians was between two and seven times higher as a cause of death than among the general population - with homicide eight times greater. Prince was aged just 57 when he recently passed away - and was said to be battling painkiller addiction. The world of rock has tragically taken far too many young hopefuls long before their time, but a study conducted by Sydney University examined12,655 musicians who passed away between 19 - and found that the average age of death was between their late 50s and early 60s.
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