February 20th, 2009

My top ten favorite suicides:

10. Alice de Janzé [American heiress; gunshot]
9. Penelope Delta [Greek author; ingested poison]
8. Adam Czerniaków [Polish-Jewish engineer; ingested cyanide]
7. Ian Curtis [English musician; hanged]
6. Sigmund Freud [Austrian psychoanalyst; morphine overdose]
5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman [American writer; inhaled chloroform]
4. Virginia Woolf [English writer; drowned]
3. Thomas Chatterton [English poet; ingested arsenic]
2. Charlotte Mew [English poet; ingested disinfectant]
1. Vincent Van Gogh [Dutch painter; gunshot]

Life is nice.