SPOILER I wasn't sure at the end if he killed himself or died naturally of heart issue? She read the his letter and I wondered if it was a suicide note?
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Natural causes. I think the doctor said he literally had too big a heart, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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shareI think he committed suicide. Someone who dies from natural causes doesn't leave a note on his chest. My guess is that it was an overdose. He did, indeed, have an enlarged heart. That condition would have killed him sooner or later. However, he was an orderly man, and he wanted to pick the time and place. Red-125
shareNatural causes. He explicitly wrote in his letter "don't think I did something foolish," and there is no reason to doubt that. He wrote the note because he knew he was near death.
shareI believe he didn't see it as foolish as it would have killed him eventually, and he wanted nothing more than reunite with his wife. The nurse said he would be fine even though his heart is big, plus the letter he left behind points toward suicide.
shareHe didn't kill himself. However, he knew that his heart would one day kill him and as the practical man he was he wrote a letter to tell the people around him how he wanted his funeral.
It is more obvious in the book that he died of natural causes, but he writes in his letter that he didn't do anything foolish but that the doctor's diagnosis would have caught up with him whenever he would pass away (my own translation from the movie so it might be put differently in the movie).
He actually says in the note ".......... Please don't think that I did something foolish". It was definitely suicide; it was too orderly for a natural death; the position, the note, fully clothed, tidily laid out etc
shareThe movie is based on the book were in the end it's explained pretty accurately how he died during the night due to enlarged heart. The movie doesn't deviate from the book at any other time so it's definitely not suicide.
shareIt was very obviously natural death in the movie. He knew it was gonna happen, because the doctors warned him. That's why he wrote the note beforehand.
share"Don't be worried that I did something stupid.
If you're reading this, the doctor's diagnosis was right.
She said my heart was too big.
But even if that sounds nice, it's not so good.
Sooner or later, one pays for it."
Death of natural causes obviously. And yes, he was fully clothed, but it only means he probably didn't die during the night, but during some nap or simply after starting to feel bad and deciding to lie on the bed.
It was a natural death...for the people still insisting it was suicide.
shareIt seemed like suicide at first but the tone seemed like it was natural causes.
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