How did Eugene ONeil die?
O’Neill died in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston, on November 27, 1953, at the age of 65. (The building is now the Shelton Hall dormitory at Boston University.) There is an urban legend perpetuated by students that O’Neill’s spirit haunts the room and dormitory. A revised analysis of his autopsy report shows that, contrary to the previous diagnosis, he did not have Parkinson’s disease, but a late-onset cerebellar cortical atrophy. He was interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. O’Neill’s final words were reputedly “Born in a hotel room, and Goddammit, died in one!
Eugene O’Neil died in the Shelton Hotel in Boston, Massachuestts on 1953. Allegedly, his last words were, “Born in a hotel room, and goddammit! Died in one!” His health had been hurt by his alcoholism and he suffered from Parkinson’s disease-like tremors of his hands that had made it difficult, if not impossible, to write since the early 1940s. It is believed that he suffered cerebellar cortical abiotrophy, a neurological disease in which certain neurons in the cerebellum of the brain die off, adversely affecting the balance and coordination of the sufferer.
