Sorry if I was incorrect in using the word "suicide" ~ I must have picked it up from something I've read within the last few days, either in this thread or in something linked from this thread.

I do not actually remember the event at the time it happened. I was not as active and enthusiastic Tim Hardin fan as I had been a decade or so earlier, and was probably among the many members of the general public to be so overwhelmed at John Lennon's murder and the subsequent media orgy as to miss the news of Tim's demise.

In any event, many observers seem to agree that Tim Hardin spent much of his adult life "killing himself by degrees." The final blow may have been accidental ~ I really don't know the details ~ but I can see how some writers, perhaps unfairly, would characterize Tim Hardin as a person who did himself in.