"He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody"On May 1, 1947, 21 year old Evelyn McHale plunged to her death, leaping off the Empire State Building and leaving these words scrawled, and then crossed out, on her suicide letter. 86 stories and four minutes later, photographer student Robert Wiles snapped this photograph of her lifeless corpse. There is no blood, there are no mangled limbs. Her nylons are ripped and lace her ankles together in dancerly contortion, her face is made up and her fingers daintily gloved, as her immobile body lies cradled in a bed of glossy black limousine.
"Dying is an art, like everything else." - Sylvia Plath
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