From wikipedia:
Mario Monicelli (16 May 1915 29 November 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style), three times nominated for the Accademy [...] Reportedly, Monicelli jumped from his 5th floor hospital window and landed near the entrance to the ER where many patients and relatives congregated. He had been in and out of the hospital over the years for the treatment of prostate cancer. An unnamed person close to Mario Monicelli said he died from the window leap to commit suicide as he was not aging well and tired of getting old. He was an atheist.
This work has been inspired by the follwing scene from the movie Amici Miei (Friends of mine, directed of course by MOnicelli):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA7s_K9M0PY
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