Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941
Cause of Death: Drowning
Virginia Woolf was a novelist and essayist and regarded as one of the most modern literary figures of the 20th Century. Her famous works include Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and To The Lighthouse. She is also famous for her book length essay A Room Of One’s Own where she states a “woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction.”
Woolf suffered from depression and after the Luffwaffe destroyed her London homes her condition worsen and she was unable to work. On March 28th, 1941 after a nervous breakdown Woolf committed suicide. She put on her overcoat, filled the pockets with stones and walked in the River Ouse where she drowns herself. Woolf’s body was not found until April 18th.
Her final letter to her husband she wrote:
I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
Songs:
Drowning Lessons by My Chemical Romance
War Machine by AC/DC
Sadness by Enya and Enigma
See You On The Other Side by Ozzy Osbourne
Drowning by Jesus On Extasy