# Death by boredom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 26, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740 "2013-04-26T06:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hipdadiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hipdadiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hipdadiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/1 "2013-04-26T06:31:26Z")
Big-time synchronicity alert! Cecil’s column on the possibility of death via boredom comes 41 years to the day after this: Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck. ~~ George Sanders, British actor [“Rebecca”, “All About Eve”, etc., etc.], suicide note, April 25, 1972 * * * LINK TO COLUMN: [Can you be bored to death? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3103/can-you-be-bored-to-death) ---
**Author:** ![hipdadiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hipdadiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hipdadiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/2 "2013-04-26T07:00:51Z")
This one could be even more relevant to Cecil’s topic: I’m bored with it all. ~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965 Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/3 "2013-04-26T09:21:54Z")
This is the [Column.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3103/can-you-be-bored-to-death) ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/4 "2013-04-27T02:18:01Z")
I seriously thought I was the only one to be affected by boredom. I keep blaming it on the fact that I don’t have kids to live through. I sincerely can’t see anything I can accomplish greater than what I have done already. I’m not depressed. I have taken medication for depression and all that did was make me fat and lazy, kind of like a neutered cat. The gain from this column is that I know I am not alone. The bad thing is that there is not a cure presented. SFC Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/5 "2013-04-27T14:09:47Z")
[N is for NEVILLE who died of ennui](http://www.goreystore.com/sites/goreystore.com/files/imagecache/product_full/products/31134.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ponzicar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@ponzicar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ponzicar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/6 "2013-04-27T21:37:36Z")
Noticeably absent from this column is any mention of prisoners. Wouldn’t someone who has been in solitary confinement for years on end be a very relevant example of extreme boredom? ---
**Author:** ![zhoen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c4cdca/32.png) [@zhoen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zhoen)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/7 "2013-04-28T13:33:45Z")
Sherlock Holmes complained of ennui, and took cocaine to self medicate. ---
**Author:** ![RichardSRussell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/47e85d/32.png) [@RichardSRussell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RichardSRussell)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2013, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-by-boredom/656740/8 "2013-04-29T04:40:41Z")
I just love a happy ending!