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>> tinnitus is also used by people to describe everything from buzzing, white noise, clicking, chirping, chainsaws, and the sound of a 747 taking off. It’s little wonder the inability to silence the unrelenting screeching in their heads has led some tinnitus sufferers to commit suicide, and many others to contemplate it, including Ludwig Van Beethoven. Beethoven often complained that his ears whistled and buzzed all day and night, and 25 years after his death, the Heiligenstadt Testament was opened, which contains a