Craig, look at this. I'm looking at this website all about famous people who committed suicide. It’s really interesting and a little gross. Check out van Gogh, I need to do some research about him. van Gogh… here we are. Vincent van Gogh, born 1853 in Holland, died 1890 in France of a self-inflicted gunshot. He cut his ear off before that, didn't he? Yes, he was a troubled genius. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life epitomizes the mad genius legend. What else does it say? Only one of his paintings was sold while he was alive, and his most famous ones were painted during a period of 29 months where he worked and worked, and then became suicidal. Actually, one reason he became suicidal was because he was suffering from epilepsy. In his grim struggle Vincent had one constant ally and support, his younger brother Theo. He wrote Theo many letters talking of his dreams and aspirations. I think Theo tried to keep him from going insane.