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Morrison’s case, a bunch of drinking buddies with whom to hang out in undesirable
boîtes
. By the end of June, however, he was falling into depression.
    On 2 July 1971 Jim Morrison went with Pamela Courson to a cinema to watch
Pursued
, a film starring Robert Mitchum, one of his favourite actors. Pamela Courson claimed he came back with her to their apartment from the movie and went to bed. Waking in the night from chest pains, he got up to soak in the bath tub. It was 5 a.m. when Pamela woke and found him still lying in the bath. A heart attack was what had killed Jim Morrison, it was widely circulated.
    Later a story emerged that Pamela Courson had been using heroin – Paris was always a prime source for the drug. Jim Morrison, she said, had found her stash, and did some himself, which was what killed him. She told this version to Danny Sugerman, later denying to him that there was any truth in the story whatsoever. And there was another version that went the rounds: that Jim Morrison had snorted heroin in a Paris nightclub and overdosed. He had then been taken to his apartment where an attempt was made to revive him by placing the singer in a cold bath.
    In conditions of great secrecy, James Douglas Morrison was buried on 8 July, 1971 at the Père Lachaise cemetery, the prestigious central Paris graveyard for artists. There was only a handful of onlookers.

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