The Most Beautiful Suicide: A Violent Death, an Immortal Photo

In May 1947, LIFE magazine devoted a full page to a picture taken by a photography student named Robert Wiles. The photograph is extraordinary in several ways—not least because it remains, seven decades later, one of the most famous portraits of suicide ever made. Along with Malcolm Browne’s 1963 image of a self-immolating Buddhist monk and a small handful of other photos of men and women seen before, during, or after their own self-slaughter, Wiles’ picture graphically and unforgettably captures the destruction—both literal and figurative—that attends virtually all suicides.

The woman in the photo was 23-year-old Evelyn McHale. Not much is known of her life, or of her final hours, although countless people have put enormous effort into uncovering as much about the troubled, attractive California native as they possibly could. For example, the tremendous visual-culture blog Codex 99 has a solid discussion of her life and her suicide. But even that examination of her history and her death feels somehow lacking—not because the Codex post is weak, but because Evelyn left behind so little to hold on to. In the end, there is not even a gravesite; she was cremated, according to her wishes, and no marker or tombstone exists.

The body of 23-year-old Evelyn McHale rests atop a crumpled limousine minutes after she jumped to her death from the Empire State Building, May 1, 1947. See Pic: http://time.com/3456028/the-most-beautiful-suicide-a-violent-death-an-immortal-photo/

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youngest85:
Everybody is nw a blogger



Jst because of aunty smello's breakthrough

Bro you sound really pained, hope all is well?

youngest85:
Everybody is nw a blogger



Jst because of aunty smello's breakthrough

Bitter soul!

youngest85:
Everybody is nw a blogger



Jst because of aunty smello's breakthrough

Ignorant soul! dude isn't even a blogger... he shared something important from [size=30pt]TIME.com[/size]
you don't travel, you don't read! how on earth do you want to get some exposure?

VocalWalls:


Ignorant soul! dude isn't even a blogger... he shared something important from [size=30pt]TIME.com[/size]
you don't travel, you don't read! how on earth do you want to get some exposure?

Bros, i 4 lyk to be a tourist o....

But money no deh

youngest85:


Bros, i 4 lyk to be a tourist o....

But money no deh

Na like this you want take find the favor? Shutting people down?

VocalWalls:

Na like this you want take find the favor? Shutting people down?

Make i cum deh do eye service?

Where is the photo na..it's not here and it's not in the link

This is intriguing. Many topics like this. So death can be so beautiful, because the victim is a beauty. There are, however, many reasons why people kill themselves.