User blog comment:RainingSlayerBlood/Friendly debate/@comment-26025467-20150212005158/@comment-26030957-20150212013342

Edgar Allan Poe, though a legend, is not living. He died on October 7, 1849 in the gutter, in Baltimore, Maryland, most likely on an opium and alchol bender after the voting polls closed. Though, there is some evidence he may have been bitten by a rabid cat.