A Remarkable Suicide

A remarkable suicide Johan Borgen had an elegant pen and a charming story near his typewriter, but he was also a serious writer who deeply plowed furrow in the landscape of the mind His masterwork was “Lillelord” exploring the unexplained lyssa that often follows gifted people who often sink into depression and suicide It was as a dandified storyteller he was best known by the public; in my time as a seafarer when the merchant fleet was large and a career choice and had no place for losers, the welfare people came with books that were exchanged with the ship's own library. Johan Borgen's was a popular select what we readers didn't know, although what some suspected, the writer suffered very much from depression and sudden violent thoughts, so much so when he was in his seventies decided to take his own life This deadly seance consisted of bottles of wine and champagne, poisonous pills, and friends to come drink and witness his demise, which they did several times before Johan sank into a coma and drifted away as the morning broke It was a sad affair at the time of his suicide, he was in his middle seventies, physically healthy could have lived another 15 years