Jeez, poets are a lonely, miserable lot! This is like the Kennedy curse, the Jeff Buckley curse, the ... the... I dunno what else curse...
FROM:
MSNBC
LONDON - Nicholas Hughes, the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. He was 47.
Hughes, who was not married and had no children, hanged himself at his home March 16, Alaska State Troopers said. An evolutionary biologist, he spent more than a decade on the faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Marmian Grimes, the university's senior public information officer, said he left about a year ago.
From the time that Plath died, in 1963, Ted Hughes tried to protect and strengthen their children, Frieda and Nicholas, from their mother's fate and fame. He burned the last volume of his wife's journals, a decision strongly criticized by scholars and fans, and waited years to tell his children the full details of Plath's suicide.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
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Jeff Buckley did not commit suicide.
Neither did the Kennedy's. Jeff a drowning accident. Kennedy's assination.
No where in the blog post does it say they committed suicide. It says those families suffered a curse... as in, what became of the father also became of the son.
But I get your point.
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