What were the reasons for George Eastman taking his own life?
Speculation has identified a number of reasons. His health was deteriorating. He saw a number of his contemporaries in wheelchairs, bedridden, or losing their mental faculties. We know he did not want this to happen to him. Towards the end, his staff had virtually isolated him from his friends by restricting visits to fifteen minutes, morning and afternoon. His quality of life was not up to his standards, and he decided that because he was losing control of this life, he did not wish to continue. Eastman once discussed the issue of suicide with the Lobster Quartet.
