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attempted suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a small caliber rifle. The bullet became stuck in his neck and a part of his spinal cord became severed. He was found unconscious and dying by his maid, lying on the bedroom floor and wearing silk pajamas. Long was taken to an emergency hospital during an operation that unsuccessfully attempted to save his life. Long died half an hour after being taken to the hospital.
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officer who investigated Long's death, stated that "here is no doubt it was a suicide". No suicide note explaining why Long chose to commit suicide was ever found. One of Long's friends speculated that part of the reason why he committed suicide was because he "guessed he had passed his peak" in
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Several weeks before his suicide, Long began feeling ill. His maid, Helen Amdt (or Andt), said that on the day before his suicide, he was in a "dark mood all afternoon" and "seemed unusually morose". On
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were $ 180,000 a year, a sum which would be several times higher today due to inflation. He said that his secret to becoming a successful editor "was giving the public the kind of things he himself liked to read." This even caused him initially to reject the publication of
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Florence E. Webster, but divorced her in 1910. He married Mrs. Pearl Dillon Schon, a daughter of Washington F. Dillon, in September 1910. She was a writer herself. Finally, in 1922, Long married Lucy Virginia Bovie, who was originally from
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and after reading it decided he, too, wanted to paint. He was over 50 but he threw up his job and went to live in one of the islands in the
Pacific. He painted for a number of years, then decided he had no aptitude for it, and killed himself."
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terms of creative output. This matches with previous statements by some of Long's friends "that the only thing on earth he feared was "going stale". He was cremated and his ashes were put into the
Pacific Ocean.
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gave Long the position of President and editor-in-chief of the
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20 Best Short Stories in Ray Long's 20 Years as an Editor
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considered Long's greatest publication at the time to be
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