/lit/ - Literature

tao lin in the future, will come up with the best way i think

HOW IS DROWNING ONESELF IN A RIVER, CREATIVE?

Sylvia Plath

>>4415305

she put stones in her coat pockets and walked into the river. not particularly creative, but very deliberate. most acts of suicide involving bodies of water are more impulsive, e.g., jumping from a bridge.

>>4415337

SO ACCORDING TO YOU, "DELIBERATE" IS SYNONYMOUS, OR COGNATE WITH "CREATIVE"?

>>4415351

no.

>>4415354
>I think Virginia Woolf's was creative.

WHAT DO YOU THINK

>>4415354
>I think Virginia Woolf's was creative.
>she put stones in her coat pockets and walked into the river. not particularly creative, but very deliberate

>>4415364

i am not the original poster. i was simply musing on the matter of virginia woolf's suicide. in my previous post i stated that i do not find her suicide to be creative. you've quoted it yourself.

>>4415389

WELL, YOUR POST IS A NONSEQUITEUR; THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD IS "AUTHORS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE CREATIVELY", NOT "AUTHORS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE DELIBERATELY".

is it possible to eat yourself

>>4415397
You can start to, but you'll never finish

>>4415393

the topic of the thread is "Suicidal Authors" or, if you prefer, "Who killed themselves the best way".

if you really wanted to look at it objectively, the best way to kill one's self would be in the way that is most certain to cause death.

>>4415393
>>4415364
>>4415351

can we be friends. you're like the personification of vaporwave.

>no yukio mishima
you've let me down, /lit/

>>4415438
Seppuku is tryhard.

>>4415424

>the personification of vaporwave.

obnoxious and trendy with zero value? is that what you look for in a friend?

>>4415445
don't be a pussy nigga

Have any authors self-immolated?

>>4415446
>obnoxious and trendy with zero value? is that what you look for in a friend?

Almost exclusively.

Natsume Souseki

>>4415663
Scratch that, he didn't kill himself, must be thinking of someone else. Not sure why I thought he had.

Seneca.
Although it was forced suicide, he still had to do it himself, he cut his wrists, found he was too old to bleed out fast enough so he cut his ankles and his knee cavities aswell. (according to Tacitus anyways)

Harakiri with scissors. Very ebin

>>4415680
Not only that, he was still not bleeding out so he ordered they take him to the baths so in contact with water the blood would flow better.

Emilio Salgari: seppuku with a razor. Ouch.

That American poet who jumped from a cruise liner into the Caribbean ocean

Kerouacs alcohlosm

>>4415309
nah he'll just overdose on heroin or antidepressants

>>4415397
as long as you save the digestive system for last

>>4416987
That's gnarly dude

Mishima.

Who was the chick that burned herself in an oven?

>>4417095
Anne Frank?

>>4417107
Anne Sexton

>>4417095
Sylvia Plath

>>4415445
I don't know, there is certain level of creativity and ambition in committing a suicide by staging a failing coup.

Tolstoy

Abandons his family at the age of 82 in the middle of a snowy Russian winter night. Dies two days later of pneumonia living as a tramp.

Hart Crane jumped overboard into the Gulf of Mexico. Although he had been drinking heavily and left no suicide note, witnesses believed his intentions to be suicidal, as several reported that he exclaimed "Goodbye, everybody!" before throwing himself overboard

>>4417095
did she burn herself? oven suicides work by carbon monoxide poisoning, not by burning oneself up.

>>4417193
Yeah, she died by carbon monoxide I think. I heard that she plugged up the spaces underneath the doors so her children wouldn't inhale it in the other rooms

>>4417185
"Goodbye; everybody!"

>>4417107

It always has and always will be Sylvia Plath.

>>4417199
nope, she died from cooking her own head in an open oven

>>4417107

>>4417312
>>4417342

She turned the gas on in the oven and suffocated, she didn't burn her face off, that would take fucking hours to kill her.

>>4417107