and did Jack London drink his own urine? (That London story I heard when in sixth grade, so I doubt it's true.)

I loved Jack London. One of the bios I read refuted that he was even a suicide, but others say that he swallowed pills to end the suffering of a long illness which I believe to be the case. And that urine story is just a fabrication. But here's London's death certificate...perhaps the Good Doctor Bill can decipher its medicalese for us?

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Documents/I0040981.html

writer's suicide

My "favorite" writer's suicide is poet Harte Crane who jumped off a boat in the Caribbean into the jaws of a shark. Now that's style!

Your Happy Epeolatrist!