Thomas Gray laments an occurrence of this type in a poem about his (*) cat Selima.
Junot Diaz's first short story collection is titled for this occurrence. This occurs to Rabbit's daughter June, and a very handsome man named Esteban is discovered after having undergone this fate in a story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Thomas Gray laments an occurrence of this type in a poem about his (*) cat Selima. Maggie Tulliver dies in this fashion at the end of The Mill on the Floss, while Edna Pontellier dies in this fashion at the end of The Awakening. The poet Li Bo supposedly underwent this fate while trying to reach a reflection of the Moon in a pond. For 10 points, name this manner in which Ishmael's crewmates die after their ship wrecks.
Junot Diaz's first short story collection is titled for this occurrence.
drowning (accept word forms and equivalents, as long as they mention a watery death; prompt on just “dying” or “suicide”)