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One day, I want to write a research paper about the strange dichotomy between the views society takes on artists - musicians, actors, painters, etc - who commit suicide and artists who overdose on drugs. In my experience (and maybe this is just me?) there is more attraction in an artist who committed suicide, because they become part of that romantic, artistic ideal that art is intangibly better than reality, and so the fact that they committed suicide makes them more artistic. Whereas artists who overdose are often indicative of the general self-indulgence and opulence that comes with fame.

Thoughts? Emphatic disagreement? Links to articles/papers that address this?