Talk:Rachel Roberts (actress)

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[edit] Method of suicide

I can clearly remember (or can I?) the report of her death, in which she was said to have swallowed some highly corrosive acid or alkali. Is my mind playing tricks on me? JackofOz 07:24, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is, to answer my own question. Apparently, I must have been thinking of Inger Stevens. (But I could have sworn .....). -- JackofOz (talk) 11:39, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

...she died at her home in Studio City from an overdose of barbiturates. ... Actual suicide was a result of swallowing lye, alkali, or another unidentified caustic substance on top of the barbiturates which were ingested as detailed in her posthumously published journals. The acidic effect of the poisonous agent was an immediate cause of death which propelled her body through a decorative glass screen. She was found by her gardener on her kitchen floor amongst the shards of glass on November 26, 1980. She was 53.

This seems somewhat confused. Either her death was a result of the barbiturates, or of the caustic substance, or most likely both (if she ingested them at the same time). But it defies logic to say she died from an overdose of barbiturates but the actual cause was a caustic substance. -- JackofOz (talk) 22:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)