Is this the weirdest goddam obit you’ve seen in a month of Sundays? From lifeinlegacy.com:
Richard Lancelyn Green—World’s leading Sherlock Holmes expert, chairman of the Sherlock Holmes Society, and author of a biography of the fictional detective’s Scottish creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had recently expressed concern about an auction of Sir Arthur’s diaries and felt there was a conspiracy against him, was found strangled on March 27, with a shoelace tightened around his neck with a wooden spoon and surrounded by cuddly toys and a bottle of gin. Officials could not determine whether the death was a murder or a suicide. He was 50 years old.
When I read the obit earlier this week, I immediately thought his death was due to autoerotic asphyxia
I remember back when, reading about artist Vaughn Bode (Cheech Wizard) having died the same way. Official websites (run by Bode’s family) attribute his death to “a mystic experiment gone wrong.”
