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To read that someone committed suicide.
On the other hand, why is this on Broadsheet?
Because of who the deceased man's mother was. Look her up!
and I am sad to see her son commit suicide. Makes the cold, windy, cloudy day here look even sadder.
I know who she was, although I never got the whole Sylvia Plath feminist martyr thing. I assume this poor man's death is also Ted Hughes' fault. Obviously.
One of the saddest things I ever read was in an interview Andrea Sachs did with Frieda Hughes. She didn't know her mother had committed suicide until she was 14 when another girl who was reading The Bell Jar told her. I just can't imagine what that would feel like.
Read Sylvia Plath's powerful poem on suicide:
http://textflows.com/Plath_Lady_Lazarus
Composed 4 months before her death.
I hadn't known that Plath's daughter Frieda is also a poet until I saw her collection "Forty-five", comprised of one poem for each of her (then) 45 years. Harrowing indeed: a litany of major health problems, illnesses, dreadful relationships. You can't help but wonder how much of her life's pain derived from the legacy of her parents. It was a relief to read that she was able to get into a good relationship (with a handsome artist).
