Editing James Whale (section)

==Death==
Whale died by suicide by drowning himself in his [[Pacific Palisades, California|Pacific Palisades]] swimming pool on 29 May 1957 at the age of 67.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=Film Producer Dead: James Whale Falls into Pool: Directed 'Frankenstein' |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C13FD3C55137A93C2AA178ED85F438585F9 |page=33 |work=The New York Times |date=30 May 1957 |access-date=4 November 2008 |archive-date=4 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104002743/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C13FD3C55137A93C2AA178ED85F438585F9 |url-status=live }}</ref> He left a [[suicide note]], which Lewis withheld until shortly before his own death decades later. Because the note was suppressed, the death was initially ruled accidental.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Director James Whale Dies in Pool |work=Corpus Christi Times |page=14-B |agency=Associated Press |date=30 May 1957 }}</ref> The note read in part:
{{Blockquote|text=To ALL I LOVE,
Do not grieve for me. My nerves are all shot and for the last year I have been in agony day and night—except when I sleep with sleeping pills—and any peace I have by day is when I am drugged by pills.
I have had a wonderful life but it is over and my nerves get worse and I am afraid they will have to take me away. So please forgive me, all those I love and may God forgive me too, but I cannot bear the agony and it [is] best for everyone this way. The future is just old age and illness and pain. Goodbye and thank you for all your love. I must have peace and this is the only way.|author=Jimmy.<ref>"anger211"</ref>}}

Whale's body was cremated per his request, and his ashes were interred in the [[Columbarium]] of Memory at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 50421-50422). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> Because of his habit of periodically revising his date of birth, his niche lists the incorrect date of 1893.<ref>Curtis, p. 387.</ref> When his longtime partner David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.<ref>Curtis, p. 389.</ref>