Thomas Lynn Bradford

Thomas Lynn Bradford (died February 6, 1921) of Detroit, Michigan is most famous for committing suicide in attempt to ascertain the existence of an afterlife and communicate that information to a living accomplice, Ruth Doran. On 6 February 1921, Bradford sealed his apartment in Detroit, Michigan, blew out the pilot on his heater, and turned on the gas.

Some weeks earlier, Bradford had sought a fellow spiritualist in a newspaper ad. Ruth Doran responded. The two agreed "that there was but one way to solve the mystery - two minds properly attuned, one of which must shed its earthly mantle". However, Bradford did not survive the experiment, and the Times ran a follow-up under the headline "Dead Spiritualist Silent".

References

The Afterlife: Real Or Imagined? CBS Sunday Morning News. October 30, 2005
Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), W. W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-05962-6
Mary Roach, "The Big Questions: What happens after you die?", New Scientist, issue 2578, 18 November 2006.
Jadg/radiolab/2009/08/10/12-proof/ Proof (Interview with Mary Roach), Radiolab Podcast Short, 10 August 2009.

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