Trevor Bach ENG2(8) Final Exam

The death of Edgar Allen Poe was deemed as death by alcohol or deemed as death by rabies. I support the alcohol side. The rabies side seems to work but the alcohol side fits better. When he died in 1849 we know he died in a hospital, he stayed for four days until death.

The original theory was that Poe died due to alcohol. it was reported that he had problems with alcohol. he drank to much, but on the flip side it also made him ill. so my theory is that he drank to much as always and as expected it made him ill, so was out side in the rain and wind drunk and ill, with no protection against the harsh weather he got more and more ill until found. but when they found him he was to ill to recover.

The rabies story kind of fits, but has to many holes. like it was said that the cat could have given him rabies, but it also says that the butler had gotten rid of the cat three months prior to poes death. And when he was in the hospital they would have noticed any scrathces or bites on him leading to the rabies.

Now I say it was alcohol because he was reported to have been seen already with a fever leaving Richmond. And said he didn't remember the trip back at all. So he could have stopped off at a bar, got plowed and got ill from the alcohol and stayed out side in the rain and wind without protection, and gotten gotten much to sick to recover even in the hospital. so he died.