# Ernest Hemmingway's suicide **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2002, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ernest-hemmingways-suicide/123360 "2002-08-11T03:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ernest-hemmingways-suicide/123360/21 "2002-08-12T14:58:22Z")
No son committed suicide. Jack, the oldest, died of leukemia in December of 2000, I believe. Gregory, the youngest and an ex-doctor, died in a women’s jail cell in Miami, Florida in October of 2001 (He had had a sex change operation a while before. That was why he was in the women’s jail cell). Patrick is still alive and living with his wife in Bozeman, Montana. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ernest-hemmingways-suicide/123360/22 "2002-08-12T17:11:43Z")
I was thinking of Jac, who I believe was the father of the grand daughter that killed herself. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ernest-hemmingways-suicide/123360/23 "2002-08-12T17:34:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TV time \* > **…the youngest and an ex-doctor…** I realized that this was not clear. It was meant to convey the information that Gregory had been a doctor not that he (or I guess that should be “she” since he had had a sex change) was in the jail with an ex-doctor. I have such a hard time saying what I mean sometimes. And **plnnr** , a few obituaries listed Jack Hemingway’s death as a heart attack since his heart gave out while he was being operated on for a leukemia related complication, but most listed the cause of death as leukemia and it was his daughter that died of a drug overdose. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ernest-hemmingways-suicide/123360/24 "2002-08-13T07:15:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TV time \* > \*\ ***Equipoise** , I am looking into your author’s claim that Hemingway had leukemia, but I can find no other source for this information. None of the accepted biogrophies that I have of the man (six books) mention this. In addition, in two interviews I did with his wife Mary, she did not mention this and finally (and in my mind most conslusively) in one interview with his son Jack who was at that time dying of leukemia, he did not say that his father had the same form of cancer. While the agreement with him at the time was that my interview would be about him and not his father, I would have thought that he would have mentioned somewhere in the discussion of his health that his father had the same disease. > > I am now trying to find Mr. Somrack (the author of your piece) and ask him where he got this fact. I am wondering if he had heard about Jack Hemingway’s death and tranferred the information to Ernest. In addition, Hemingway had two or three characters in his stories/novels who suffered from leukemia. He also liked to tell a story about a woman whom he loved who died from the disease. \*\* Thank you for this information. I’d be interested in hearing what the author says if you can reach him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ernest-hemmingways-suicide/123360.md?page=1)