The Death of Jim Morrison.?!
Question: I am researching the Death of Jim Morrrison. I would like some links to websites giving information about his death. I need especially sites that aren't just a list of possible thereorys and tell my what happened.
Answers: I am researching the Death of Jim Morrrison. I would like some links to websites giving information about his death. I need especially sites that aren't just a list of possible thereorys and tell my what happened.
Since Jim's death is still disputed it is not possible to find a source that has the one and only cause of death, if they do they would be speculating or coming to conclusions that are not scientifically or historically possible. I do suggest the you go to www.thedoors.com/home or messageboard.thedoors.com this message board has many knowledgeable members, some knew and was friends with Jim while he was alive. There are many threads started on this topic, so just do a search in the general forum and you can read them. If you are seriously interested in The Doors and learning more about them you can become a member and share your questions, or even include your opinion in those discussions. To help your research you should think about going to the library or bookstore and getting some biographies on Jim, all of them include some sort of conclusion about his death. I would suggest, No One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins, Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek, Riders on the Storm by John Densmore, or The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison by Jerry Hopkins. I found the last book has the most information on his death.
Hope I could help,
(this is my own written answer not copied and pasted, so you can be assured that it is correct and thought out)
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Jim Morrison's grave at Père-Lachaise.Morrison moved to Paris in March 1971, taking up residence in an apartment at 17 rue Beautreillis. Once in Paris, Morrison gained a great deal of weight and shaved off his beard.[14] By all accounts Morrison became very depressed while in Paris, and was planning to return to the US. However, he admired the city's architecture and would go for long walks through the city.[15]
It was in Paris that Morrison made his last studio recording, with two American street musicians — a session dismissed by Manzarek as "drunken gibberish."[16] Regardless, the session included an intriguing version of a song-in-progress, "Orange County Suite," which can be heard on the bootleg Lost Paris Tapes.
Morrison died on July 3, 1971, at age 27. In the official account of his death, he was found in the rue Beautreillis apartment bathtub by Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy has left many questions regarding Morrison's cause of death.
In his book, Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman discussed his encounter with Courson after she returned to the United States. According to his account, Courson stated that Morrison had died of a heroin overdose. Courson said that Morrison inhaled the substance because he thought it was cocaine. Sugerman added that Courson had given numerous contradictory versions of Morrison's death, at times saying that she had killed Jim, or that his death was her fault. The majority of fans seem to have accepted the mistaken heroin overdose account, which is also supported by the confession of Alain Ronay. Ronay has written that Morrison died of a hemorrhage after snorting Courson's heroin, and that Courson nodded off, leaving Morrison bleeding to death instead of phoning for medical help. Ronay confessed in an article in Paris-Match that he then helped cover up the circumstances of Morrison's death, and helped Courson flee the country.[14][17][18] Courson herself died of a heroin overdose three years later. Like Morrison, she was 27 years old at the time of her death.
Despite this, Sugerman (and Hopkins) also opined in No One Here Gets Out Alive that perhaps Morrison was not dead at all, a choice that may have sold more books and records, but led to considerable distress for Morrison's loved ones over the years, notably when fans would stalk them, searching for Morrison.[19][20]
In a July 2007 newspaper interview, a self-described close friend of Morrison's, Sam Bernett, resurrected an old rumour and announced that Morrison actually died of a heroin overdose in the Rock 'n' Roll Circus nightclub, on the Left Bank in Paris. Bernett claims that Morrison came to the club to buy heroin for Courson, then did some himself and died in the bathroom. Bernett alleges that Morrison was then moved back to the rue Beautreillis apartment and dumped in the bathtub by the same two drug dealers from whom Morrison had purchased the heroin. Bernett says those who saw Morrison that night were sworn to secrecy, in order to prevent a scandal for the famous club,[21] and that some of the witnesses immediately left the country. However, this is just the latest of many in a long line of old rumours and conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Morrison,[22][23] and is less supported by witnesses than are the accounts of Ronay and Courson (cited above).[24]