With three weeks having passed since his disappearance, those close to monologuist Spalding Gray are despairing of finding him alive. It seems likely that Gray, who left behind a wife and three children, jumped into New York Harbor from the Staten Island Ferry. “Death has been Gray’s obsession, his fascination. It petrified him, yet he grew accustomed from an early age — from his own mother’s threats to kill herself — to death’s constant presence.” Gray had often predicted that his own death would come by suicide, once he could no longer bear to battle his myriad demons, and it appears that he may have been correct.