Seaman suggests that Lennon’s troubled childhood and the realization that he had allowed the same fate to befall his son contributed to a “fatal flaw” that drove the musician subconsciously to plot his own death. Lennon, he says, had a compulsive fascination with mystical ideas of death and rebirth. Consciously or unconsciously, the expression of such ideas was bound to attract the attentions of someone like Mark David Chapman.
