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His case came to international attention in 1997 when he told his story to [[Milton Diamond]], an academic [[sexology|sexologist]] who persuaded Reimer to allow him to report the outcome in order to dissuade physicians from treating other infants similarly.{{sfn|Diamond|Sigmundson|1997}} Soon after, Reimer went public with his story and [[John Colapinto]] published a {{citation needed span |date=May 2018 |text=widely disseminated and influential}} account in ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine in December 1997.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-link=John Colapinto |year=1997 |title=The True Story of John/Joan |magazine=Rolling Stone |issue=775 |location=New York |publisher=Straight Arrow Publishers |pages=54–97 |issn=0035-791X}}</ref> The article won the [[National Magazine Awards|National Magazine Award]] for Reporting.{{sfn|Bockting|2010|p=378}}
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In addition to his difficult lifelong relationship with his parents, Reimer had to deal with unemployment and the death of his brother Brian from an overdose of [[antidepressant]]s on 1 July 2002. On 2 May 2004 his wife Jane told him she wanted to separate. On the morning of 4 May 2004, Reimer drove to a grocery store's parking lot in his hometown of Winnipeg<ref name="LA Times"/> and took his own life by shooting himself in the head with a [[sawed-off shotgun]].{{sfnm |1a1=McQuail |1y=2018 |2a1=Rolls |2y=2015 |2p=145}} He was 38 years old.<ref name=nyt-obit>{{cite news |date=12 May 2004 |title=David Reimer, 38, Subject of the John/Joan Case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/us/david-reimer-38-subject-of-the-john-joan-case.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=The Canadian Press |access-date=19 May 2015}}</ref> He was buried in St. Vital Cemetery in Winnipeg.<ref>{{cite web |title=St. Vital Cemetery Burial Search |url=http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/cemeteries/cemetery_stvital_alpha.stm |publisher=City of Winnipeg |access-date=7 May 2018}}</ref>
|publisher=Duke University Press
|isbn=978-0-8223-8921-7
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: {{cite book
|last=Koch
|first=Michaela
|year=2017
|title=Discursive Intersexions: Daring Bodies between Myth, Medicine, and Memoir
|series=Practices of Subjectivation
|volume=9
|location=Bielefeld, Germany
|publisher=Transcript Verlag
|isbn=978-3-8394-3705-6
|ref=harv
}}
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