A neighbor had me for egg nog, then she closed the curtain, scaring
me a little like water on electric fans scared the monk Tom Merton.

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WIKI: Death
On December 10, 1968, Merton was at a Red Cross retreat center named Sawang Kaniwat in the town of Samutprakarn near Bangkok, Thailand, attending an interfaith conference between Catholic and non-Christian monks.[31] After giving a talk at the morning session, he was found dead later in the afternoon in the room of his cottage, wearing only shorts, lying on his back with a short-circuited Hitachi floor fan lying across his body.[32] His associate, Dom Jean Leclercq, OSB, states: "In all probability the death of Thomas Merton was due in part to heart failure, in part to an electric shock."[33] Leclercq made no mention of the fact that there was no autopsy and that there was a bleeding wound in the back of Merton's head that has never been explained. [34] Arriving from the cottage next to Merton's, the Primate of the Benedictine Order and presiding officer of the conference, Rembert Weakland, anointed Merton.[35]

Hugh Turley and David Martin note that Thomas Merton befriended and inspired such radical peace activists as Martin Luther King and Daniel Berrigan, and conclude their investigation of his death with the following words:

The best evidence indicates beyond any serious doubt that Merton was murdered. . . . The story that a fan killed Merton is so preposterous that a series of fantastic stories have had to be invented to make it believable….Who did it and why? The CIA had the motive and the means.”[32]