Comments on: Dale Carnegie’s Death

By: ANON

ANON — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:38:19 +0000

You talking about enjoy your life, it’s a great book so is Carnegie’s book, but he took examples of people and the other author took deen this makes the difference.

By: anthony mohammed robbin

anthony mohammed robbin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:15:14 +0000

As far as I know, Dale Carnegie ever wanted to commit suicide when there is an economic crisis in America. But then he realized and canceled intentions. Finally, some time after the incident, he even set up a personality training institutions which are still popular today.

By: Karthik Rangarajan

Karthik Rangarajan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:46:58 +0000

Usually, the authors are not the targets of rumours. The statistics show that most frequent targets of rumours are either politicians or spiritual leaders. So, it is unlikely that Dale Carnegie’s suicide is a rumour. Besides, it seems very logical to accept the theory that he committed suicide because of his frequent failures in life. There is no denying that he was divorced twice. Both of his marriages had failed misearably. Even the information on Wikipedia (Krishna has mentioned the link above) clearly states about his divorces. Isn’t it an ironical fact that a person supposed to be expert in human relations could not develop a good rapport with any of his wives.

It is easier to preach than to practice the principles. And the best way to preach the principles of human relations is by putting them in practice rather than by speech or by writings. LORD RAM was such a personality. That is why, I always prefer to read books like Ramayan than reading the books of authors such as Dale Carnegie. The stories in Ramayan may be ancient, but not the principles. You learn the great principles of human relations that are not only practical but the timeless and proven.

By: Mona Shah

Mona Shah — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:22:12 +0000

Well Guys. Instead of wasting time in discussing such issues, please come down to the earth. Note the following points:

1. Writing a good book is a different thing and living a good life is different thing. If a person is a good writer, it does not mean he can not commit suicide. After all, he was a human being.

2. There is no correlation with his books and the way he died. Whatever way he died, one must accept the fact that his books are excellent and everyone should ideally read them. Remember, a leading heart specialist, Dr. Chhotubhai Naik, who saved many people from dying of heart deseases, himself died of heart attack. Does it mean one should never go to a heart specialist because he may probably have a heart desease.

3. It is good that many swamijis mention that Dale Carnegie died by committing the suicide. It means that do not judge a person by what he says or what he writes. A person must be judged by how he adheres to those principles. And these rules apply first to those swamijis.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:03:05 +0000

Dear Krishna,
In India some swamiji’s are using this rumour as a part of their discourse. Ten years back when internet and google was not available everywhere, we from Chennai contacted World Book people to find out the truth about Dale Carnigie’s death. They did a research and told us he died out of hodgglom’s disease.

Idont understand why these swamiji’s add this rumour in their worksho?

Regrds

By: Karthik

Karthik — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:34:51 +0000

Imm.. one more swami “Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev” also refers as “People like Dale Carnegie and others, they broke down, became neurotic, because you are trying to deceive the realiyt” … in his “From creation to creator” book.

By: Zakir

Zakir — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:44:22 +0000

Hi Krishna, I agree with you. I read about this rumour in one of the books, it was hard to believe. So I started to search for the facts.

Whats more important is what Carnegie books had to offer. His well proven techniques helped thousands of people and still proving the same. Try any of the solutions and you will see the results.

Even though a rumour that he commited suicide does’nt prove his work false or his techniques immaterial. It doesnt make the success of the followers null.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:23:39 +0000

Krishna, I can relate to your post very well as I had the same experience more than a decade ago when computers were a luxury in India and not accessible. I lost interest in his book (that I had thus far liked) when a friend mentioned about his ’suicide’. Like you, I didnt question her as she’s an avid reader herself.

Today, for some reason this cropped up in my mind and instantly, I found myself going on google, the one-stop shop for info in the 21st century, with ‘Dale Carnegie biography’. I was surprised to see that all results (at least on page 1) mention demise due to Hodgkins disease. The first thing that struck me was that my memory is may be playing tricks on me and my friend might have mentioned this about another author. Just one more time, I was compelled to repeat the search with ‘Dale Carnegie death’ and ’suicide’ and found that this was indeed the man with the controversy in death.

All these varied results dont come labeled as rumours, speculations, educated guesses or facts; its for us to figure out and the more we explore, the more we learn. Oh the joy of learning!
Thanks for your post.

By: sham77

sham77 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:36:36 +0000

I heard about the suicide from a respected author who draws from Prophetic sources to substauate his theories of self development. He states that he followed the instructions and read the ‘How to win…” at least once a month and began to apply its principles when dealing with others and wintnessed amazing results. but he states that ” I contemplated and realised that the author’s only goal was to attain worldy happiness, later when i discovered that Carnegie committed suicide, I knew for ceartian that his book, despite its merits, had not benefitted him.” and only God know’s best…

By: Somnath

Somnath — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:16:24 +0000

I too have been influenced by Dale Carnegie’s books.

A person known to me, and knowing about my interest, informed in me about his apparent suicide in such a manner that it implied that all his works were automatically invalidated.
Discounting it due to the source, it was none the less at the back of my mind; and today I recalled this, and searched the net for confirmation.

I believe that Dale was inspired while writing his books and some of it comes through when you read it.

Thanks for your info!