[Brainplague]

The problem with depression...blinds you to all kinds of good things in your life.

I'm sure she would have made SOMEONE a good wife.

[leet13]

A beautiful suicide... sad to say.

[CryInTheCorner]

wow. lmao

[joncisontilt]

yeah this pic wasnt real...she actually jumped one story onto a limousine that crashed so she could collect insurance. btw the limo crashed into a giant statue of a hammer which is why the dent was so big. she survived and later became mrs clinton. true story i swear on my great granddaughters 3rd born.

[dalefoster27]

poor girl.i wish i could bring her back

[Sir Specula]

Fuck her for wasting a perfectly promising piece o' ass-pudding piped perfection. I hope somebody necromanced it.

[secret_squirrel]

More info from another site....

"The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption:

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure.

From McHale's NY Times obituary, Empire State Ends Life of Girl, 20:

At 10:40 A. M., Patrolman John Morrissey of Traffic C, directing traffic at Thirty-fourth Street and Fifth Avenue, noticed a swirling white scarf floating down from the upper floors of the Empire State. A moment later he heard a crash that sounded like an explosion. He saw a crowd converge in Thirty-third Street.
Two hundred feet west of Fifth Avenue, Miss McHale's body landed atop the car. The impact stove in the metal roof and shattered the car's windows. The driver was in a near-by drug store, thereby escaping death or serious injury.
On the observation deck, Detective Frank Murray of the West Thirtieth Street station, found Miss McHale's gray cloth coat, her pocketbook with several dollars and the note, and a make-up kit filled with family pictures.

The serenity of McHale's body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles' photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body)."

[secret_squirrel]

Warhol's interpretation.

[mjh1]

she looks so peaceful

[Azimuth]

So beautiful, and sooo young.