Suicide
On March 30, 1967, he committed suicide by taking an electric heater into his bathtub with him. He is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Read more about this topic: Paul Clayton (folksinger)
Famous quotes containing the word suicide:
“Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“They can rule the world while they can persuade us
our pain belongs in some order.
Is death by famine worse than death by suicide,
than a life of famine and suicide ... ?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1951)