Talk:Jean-Dominique Bauby

Death
Does anyone know why he died? Complications? Another stroke? Something else? Nil Einne 14:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC) He died of heart failure.

Comment
This is totally like the character Noirtier de Villefort in the Count of Monte Cristo ~ Infrangible 02:26, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes it is. Bauby himself noticed this even devoted an entire chapter to the comparison. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.124.145.150 (talk) 15:16, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Discrepancy
We give his death as being on March 9, with the publication of the book as March 6, but we also say he died ten days after publication of the book. Do we mean "three days", or is one of the dates incorrect? Metamagician3000 (talk) 22:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Jean-Dominique Babuy's death was on March 9 according to randomhouse.com and amazon.com, stating that he passed away two days after the French pulication of the book. A few other sources said he passed away three days after. I can't find the date the book was first published, so i've taken the liberty to change it to "two days" (which seems to be the more common period) -Senaiboy (talk) 23:15, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

In the movie, they say Bauby died of pneumonia. I guess that could cause heart failure, so perhaps that's not too inaccurate.

I'm changing this back to "ten days". The end credits of the movie state
 * Jean-Dominique BAUBY est mort le 9 mars 1997, dix jours apres la parution de son livre "LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON"

This matches the "ten days" quoted on the Wikipedia article for the movie. MDWeathers (talk) 05:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Changed it back to two days, the movie makes several departures from reality, why are we giving it higher credence than the New York Times article? 197.83.226.180 (talk) 11:45, 4 May 2014 (UTC)

Euthanasia?
The date of death is too much to be a coinsidence. I suppose he asked to be put to eternal sleep after seeing his book published, which was silently honored to him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.152.107.177 (talk) 22:19, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * That's a ridiculous assumption, there are other possible explanations such as rushing to finish the book due to his ill health. Pneumonia isn't instantaneous, he would have been sick for a while. Alan Davies (talk) 00:57, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Morse Code
it was not Claude who listed alphabets but the speech therapist, wasn't it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.133.7.237 (talk) 18:47, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Werber's Novel
Can anyone find a reference for this statement?: "French science fiction author Bernard Werber's novel L'Ultime Secret is known to be inspired by Bauby." Thanks. --Utilizer (talk) 20:04, 25 May 2016 (UTC)