# I just outlived Ernest Hemingway

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-outlived-ernest-hemingway/1032428 "2026-08-19T13:34:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-outlived-ernest-hemingway/1032428/21 "2026-08-24T14:29:52Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> Shame on them for perpetuating a mean-spirited urban legend/lie. Cass died of a cardiac arrest.
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> Four years later Keith Moon died in that same bedroom.

Interesting bit o’ trivia: the apartment was owned by Harry Nilsson.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-outlived-ernest-hemingway/1032428/22 "2026-08-24T14:32:50Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> Shame on them for perpetuating a mean-spirited urban legend/lie.

Agreed. But then, whoever authored an article making fun of how famous people died using chalk outlines, including a chalk outline of the method of Hemingway’s death (which again, I don’t even want to try to imagine) was probably not too concerned with accuracy or good taste.

> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> Four years later Keith Moon died in that same bedroom.

> [@blondebear](#):
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> Interesting bit o’ trivia: the apartment was owned by Harry Nilsson.

Yeah, that is a crazy coincidental bit of trivia I had never heard. I wonder if Scotland Yard took a good hard look at Nilsson…? Kidding (maybe).

> Mama Cass (Cass Elliot) died in a flat located in Mayfair, London, England, on July 29, 1974. She was staying in an apartment borrowed from singer Harry Nilsson at No. 9 Curzon Place.

> Keith Moon died in a flat located at 12 Curzon Place (later Curzon Square) in Mayfair, London, England. Notably, the flat was rented out by singer Harry Nilsson, and singer Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) had also died in the very same apartment four years earlier.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-outlived-ernest-hemingway/1032428/23 "2026-08-24T14:38:38Z")

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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> Four years later Keith Moon died in that same bedroom.

The same _bed_, from some accounts.

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