“I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter." I don't want it to be something that just passes.

“My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person.

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So for Plath, suicide became, it seems, the Stoic way out. At a breaking point, anticipating a confinement that would destroy the very conditions of her creativity, she decided that ending her own life seemed not merely a viable option, but a reasonable one—a conclusion very much at odds with a psychiatric consensus that sees all suicidal ideation... See more