Posted on 03/23/2009 2:18:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
The son of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has committed suicide 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept, according to a report today.
Nicholas Hughes, 47, hanged himself at home in Alaska after a battle with depression, his sister Frieda said in a statement to The Times newspaper.
He was unmarried with no children of his own and had until recently been a professor of fisheries and ocean sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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“His mother, Sylvia Plath, was separated from Ted Hughes when she committed suicide by breathing in fumes from the kitchen oven in February 1963”.
How stupid is this sentence.
I would say yes. Their job is to be introspective, which can be deadly after only a few years.
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