Theosophy claimed the life of George Roble, whose body was found in the Calumet river at Chicago. He thought of nothing but this doctrine for months and finally drowned himself to see if there was anything beyond. He was 24 years of age.
There’s plenty about Theosophy on the Web, so all you get is the Google search. However, in my browsing about Theosophy and suicide, I learned that Blavatsky and Judge taught that suicide is a sin “like any other murder”. Poor George apparantly didn’t read the article by Judge that was published in 1894.
Of course, the bereaved family of Mr Roble may have picked on Theosophy as the “cause” of his death because they didn’t understand it and figured that nothing else in his life could have made him despondent enough to take his own life.
How sad.
(Article title added by me)