It's always sad to pick up on such facts, but the truth is, a lot of influential musicians died at a young age.
Chopin died at the age of 39 on October 17, 1849 due to pulmonary tuberculosis.
Mozart died 1791 in Vienna due to kidney failure, as a 35-year-old.
Schubert died 1828 in Vienna at the age of 31, due to syphilis.
You might say medicine and the life-style wasn't good at that time, and I don't doubt that.
If you take a closer look at those diseases you'll determine that most are infectious diseases. Obviously, love was their drug.
In my opinion, genius and insanity lie close together.
The people we're talking about are very ambitious, talented and beyond their society.
Of course their lives weren't always perfect, and something might have been missing,
may it be success, love or anything other "normal" people seem to have.
So they try to find a substitute, and if they over-consume it and that spells the end for these people.
I'm sure there are real coincidences, but the risk is higher that there were other reasons for their death.
It's at any rate a great loss to music history, fans and of certainly the family of the musician.
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