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Why did Hemingway kill himself?
As for the reasons Hemingway killed himself...there were many. At the age of 61 he had a bad combination of physical and mental ailments caused by a lifetime of neglect and fast living. Mentally he had lost his memory during electroshock treatment at the Mayo clinic. Physically he suffered from rapid weight loss, skin disease, alcoholism, failing eyesight, diabetes, hepatitis, high blood pressure and impotence. Basically his body had broken down, he could no longer write and he was severely depressed, and rather than endure a lingering and ugly death he decided, ironically, that the courageous thing to do was to shoot himself.