Out of reading all of the following argument articles, the article that seems most plausible will be the one of Dr. Benitez. In the passage it says the Edgar Poe did not die of alcohol, but a case of the rabies. It also has alot of information to back it up, saying that he refuses to drink alcohol, because even with water he has a difficult time drinking it! So if Joseph Walker says alcohol was the cauze of it, how can it be if drinking any type of liquid is painful enough for him?
It also makes sense that rabies was the cauze of his death, because at the time Poe did have a pet by the name Caterina. It could have been possible that the cat was a carrier of it, and may have transmitted the disease to Poe, either from some sort of contact of the body of the cat and the human flesh. Not knowing his pet was infected, Poe would have probably done something way earlier to prevent himself from getting rabies. But because there was no cure at the time there was nothing he could have done. If he did know, I know for a fact that he would have got rid of the cat long time ago.
Not only do I support this article, but I also highly agree with it! In the passage it talks about how they found his body outside a bar, wearing someone else's clothes and was pale faced. To me it seems as if Poe planned his death the way he did, because like it said before he was so sensitive to any type of liquid, how can he die of alcohol poisioning? So he made his death seem as if he died of alcohol, but really it was rabies. That is why he weared unfamiliar clothes, and was so pale from the disease getting worser that it eventually killed his limbs, and soon killed him. It is a mystery to most people of his death that even I want to know the truth!
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