Richard Brautigan shot himself in the head with a .44 Magnum revolver on September 16, 1984, in his house in Bolinas, California. He was 49. His body wasn’t discovered for a month, on October 15, badly decomposed.

Richard Brautigan shot himself in the head with a .44 Magnum revolver on September 16, 1984, in his house in Bolinas, California. He was 49. His body wasn’t discovered for a month, on October 15, badly decomposed.