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After years of prolific writing in the 1960s, Ochs's mental stability declined in the 1970s and eventually he succumbed to a number of problems including Bipolar disorder and Alcoholism, and he took his own life in 1976.

But if you do further research others say that it was due to having lost his singing ability after thieves slashed his throat while he was trekking through South America.

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