Death
Cooke died at the age of thirty-three on December 11, 1964, at the Hacienda Motel at 9137 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, California via gunshot wound to the torso. The motel's manager said that she shot Cooke in self-defense after he broke into her office residence and attacked her. However, the details of the case involving Cooke's death are still in dispute.
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“When death has you by the throat, you don’t mince words.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
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Ease me with death by bidding me got too.
Oh, if it have, let my word work on me,
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Except it be too late to kill me so,
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