Proponents of the Elvis Presley suicide theory have a strong case.  It’s the timing of when it happened, a few weeks after the release of “Elvis – What Happened?”, a tell-all paperback written by his former bodyguards who swear their boss took drugs.

Elvis was preparing for a new tour, beginning in Maine.  He believed audience might turn on him or ask questions about the book.

Elvis’ relationship with fiancée Ginger Alden was faltering.  Many within his inner circle thought she really didn’t love him.

Elvis’ ballooning weight was becoming known throughout the mainstream media.

His depression about his failed marriage and the death of his mother.  (Elvis’ father said she basically worried herself to death about her son.)

Continued lawsuits involving investments in a racquetball court franchise and assault & battery charges for the actions of his over-zealous bodyguards.

Elvis greatest joy – his nine year old daughter Lisa-Marie was staying at the house temporarily.  But, all he could do was spoil her with gifts, allowing her to do anything she pleased.

Elvis’ stepbrother David Stanley claims two days before his death, he told him the next time he saw him he would be “in a higher place and on a different plane.”  David didn’t know what he meant until August 16.

On that fateful day, the suicide theory contends Elvis saved up his medications – called “attacks” – and then took all three doses at once, causing a fatal reaction.  His only chance for living, Ginger Alden, slept in the adjoining bedroom, unknowing.

It’s hard to say whether Elvis would’ve have wanted to go out like that.  (Dead by his toilet.)  At the time, his future was constant tour dates.  As can be seen in “Elvis in Concert” (1977), his heart was no longer in it.  He refused to record in the studio.  There were no more movie deals.  What was left?

Rumor:  The leader of the Memphis Mafia Joe Esposito supposedly confessed shortly before his death that he burned Elvis’ suicide note.  If true, the note stated the reasons for why he did it…that it was because of his inability to quit taking drugs, his weight and Priscilla, the little girl he met in Germany who broke his heart.

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