The Australian director and actor, well known for his role as The Joker in his last commercially successful film, The Dark Knight, had finished filming just a few months before his fatal end. It was 22nd January 2008 (2:45p.m EST) when his housekeeper found him unconscious in his bed. At 3:36 p.m, Ledger was declared dead. Based on the initial autopsy and the toxicological analysis, the report concluded, "Mr. Heath Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine." The official announcement of the cause behind Ledger's death lead to the rising concern about problems with modern prescription drug abuse and misuse of combined drug intoxication. Many say that Ledger grew obsessive of The Joker character which lead to his overdosing. To Empire in 2007, in an interview the actor had spoken about how he prepared for the role, "I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices-it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath..." Ledger's diary ends with a "Bye-Bye" scribbled across the page which itself feels like an ominous sign.
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He was an American stand-up comedian and actor, known for his improvisational skills in feature films. The irony stands in the fact that a comedian who made everyone laugh committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt at his home in Paradise Cay, California. William's autopsy report claimed that Williams had grown increasingly paranoid. There were 'diffused Lewy body dementia' affecting his brain tissue, terrorizing him to such an extent that Williams took his own life. On 12th August, William's cremation took place.
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John Lennon who made a mark in musical history was an activist, English singer and songwriter, the co-founder of the Beatles. But who could have thought that would meet a gruesome death. On 8th December 1980, as Lennon and Ono got out of their limousine and walked towards the archway entrance of their Dakota building, a gunman named Mark David Chapman shot Lennon five times from a point 38 revolver. Four of the bullets hit Lennon's back and left shoulder, punctured his left sub-clavian artery and lung. After the murder, Chapman remained at the scene reading Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'.
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She was a Boston born American poet, short story writer and a novelist. Her 'The Collected Poems' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982. Plath was diagnosed with clinical depression and was treated with electroconvulsive therapy which made things worse. In her last days she again started to struggle with acute insomnia. She lost twenty pounds of weight. On the fateful morning of February 11,1963, Plath was found dead. Sylvia had sealed the rooms separating her and her children. At about 4:30a.m, she placed her head in the oven and suffocated herself by turning on the gas. She was merely 30 years old then.
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