‘Live fast, die young, have a good-looking corpse.’
These have been key rules of fame since John Derek uttered them in 1949 film Knock On Any Door.
But the dark link between celebrity and early demise is nothing to celebrate.
And the way we think about celebrities who have died from suicide, and suicide in general, needs to change.
Because suicide is the death of creativity, not some kind of dark glamour only the most creative of creative types succumbs to.
When Kurt Cobain died, the way in which he died became part of his legend in a way that simply wouldn’t have happened if he’d fallen down stairs or died in a plane crash or suffered a heart attack.
Suicide has become the unhappy ending to a dark fairytale – something beautifully tragic for the tragically beautiful.
You don’t need to look hard for proof of this – from luridly detailed tabloid accounts of a star’s last hours, to recreations and approximations in TV and film.
Even… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/03/suicide-is-the-death-of-creativity-so-why-do-we-keep-linking-the-two-7049321/
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