--- In [email protected], wrote: > > Re "Guy croaked himself.": > > Did Rama leave a suicide note? If not, it seems a funny way to commit suicide. Some reports claim he took 80â"150 Valium. Valium comes in 2mg, 5mg and 10mg strengths. Assume (tops) he took 150 x 10mg = 1,500mg diazepam. People have taken 2,000mg of valium and had no bad effects after sleeping off the dose for 48 hours. > Some have maintained that Rama took Phenobarbital (Abbie Hoffman's choice also) which sounds more likely if he had decided to check out - but don't US coroners run proper autopsies to determine exactly what poisons are in blood samples? > Either way, the cause of death was drowning! Was that his intention all along? Or did he simply drown accidentally after going on a drug bender?
It was pretty clearly a suicide, according to the person who was with him and attempted to join him. She survived, he didn't.
