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What was the official cause of Primo Levi's death?

  • Natural causes

  • Murder

  • Suicide

  • Unknown

Answer

Suicide was determined as the official cause of Primo Levi's death. He had a history of depression, and sadly took his own life by hanging himself in his home in 1987. Levi had been struggling with the after-effects of his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp, which he had written extensively about in his books.
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