#Evelyn Francis McHale

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Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. A photography student took a picture of her corpse where it lay on top of a crushed car.

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Goodbye, Evelyn. I worked on this series for months and agonised over the decision as to whether I should post the results for a long time (especially this last image) but I feel it would be a shame for it to never see the light of day. Inspired by the infamous photograph of Evelyn Francis McHale by Robert Wiles as seen on the second slide, death is a prospect that haunts many of us and forms a terrifying undercurrent that all of us are destined to one day feel clawing at our heels. There is a terrible beauty found in final repose that is both incredibly difficult to gaze upon as well as savagely magnetic to the eye. We feel more keenly and appreciate life that little bit more deeply after witnessing it. I’m sure I can speak for anybody who was there that day when I say if I was able to share a moment with Evelyn before that fateful hour, i would have told her not to jump. The world could only be a better place with her in it. I believe this image makes a fitting end to this short series in exploration of the liminal moment. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnYPo5xoSIP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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最も美しい自殺

⚠️最も美しい自殺 🇺🇸1947年に🌇エンパイアステートビルの86階の天文台から飛び降り…🧑‍💻詳しくは御覧下さいませ🤗

エヴリン・マクヘイル（Evelyn Francis McHale）は1923年9月カリフォルニア州バークレーに9人兄妹の長女として生まれます。 母親のヘレンは未診断で未治療のうつ病をわずらっており、これが家庭不和、そして最終的には離婚につながったそうです。 成人したエヴリンは、マンハッタンのパール・ストリートのキタブ彫刻会社の簿記係に就職して、連邦陸軍空軍から除隊した大学生のフィアンセ、バリー・ローズに出逢います。 しかし1947年5月1日、エンパイア・ステート・ビルディングの86階展望デッキから彼女は飛び降り自殺をしたのです。 享年24歳でした。 死亡4分後に写真家の学生ロバート・ウィルズ（Robert Wiles）が撮った写真は、アイコニックな自殺写真になっており、「最も美しい自殺」（”the most beautiful…

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Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who took her own life by jumping from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photography student Robert Wiles subsequently gained iconic status, being referred to as "the most beautiful suicide". On April 30, 1947, McHale took a train from New York to Easton, Pennsylvania, to visit Rhodes. The next day, after leaving Rhodes' residence, she returned to New York City and went to the Empire State Building where she jumped from the 86th-floor observatory, landing on top of a parked car. A security guard was reportedly standing approximately 10 feet (3.0 m) from her just before she jumped.

Rhodes did not notice any indication of suicidal thoughts before McHale left. Detective Frank Murray found her suicide note in a black pocketbook next to her neatly folded cloth coat over the observation deck wall. The note read: 

“I don't want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don't have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don't think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother's tendencies.“

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Robert Wiles. The Suicide Of Evelyn Francis Mchale

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1947 yılında hayatına son veren, bu son ile tarihe geçen En Güzel İntihar olarak bilinen “Evelyn Francis Mchale”nin hikayesi...

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tragic beauty: evelyn mchale - an analysis

“I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.” - Evelyn McHale’s suicide note

All this because she was afraid she wouldn’t be a good wife...lol. At any rate, I’m not going to post her most famous photograph; the one that captured what was dubbed “the most beautiful suicide”. It’s circulated on tumblr enough and it’s easily Google-able. Even in death, Virgos have to be perfect...at any rate, her name was Evelyn McHale. She was a bookkeeper who killed herself by jumping from the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. Not much is known of her life, or of her final hours, although countless people have put enormous effort into uncovering as much about the troubled, attractive California native as they possibly could. Beyond the mystery of McHale's life and death, there is the equally profound mystery of how a single photograph of a dead woman can feel so technically rich, visually compelling and—it must be said—so downright beautiful so many years after it was made as well as the lack of sentimentality of her suicide note. Perhaps it’s her (possible) Capricorn moon.

Evelyn McHale, according to what little information I could glean about her (and entering said information in astro.com), was a Virgo sun and Capricorn moon (the moon is speculative). She was born Evelyn Francis McHale in Berkeley, California. She was the sixth child (of seven) of Vincent and Helen McHale. Around 1930 Vincent accepted a position of Federal Land Bank Examiner and the family moved to Washington, D.C. Her father’s work eventually led to several moves around the country. If the constant relocations weren’t difficult enough for a teenager, Evelyn also endured an unstable family life. Her mother apparently suffered from depression—an illness that was likely not diagnosed, let alone treated in the 1930s. This led to troubles with the marriage and by 1940 Vincent had left the family and moved to St. Louis where he became a stock broker. The couple divorced and Vincent was awarded custody of the minor children.

Later he moved the family to Tuckahoe, New York were Evelyn attended high school. Helen returned home to California. After high school, Evelyn joined the Women’s Army Corps and was stationed in Jefferson, Missouri. It was reported that after her service she burned her uniform. After the War Evelyn moved to Baldwin, New York to live with her brother and sister-in-law and took a job as a bookkeeper with an engraving company. It was here that she became engaged to an ex-GI named Barry Rhodes. They had intended to be married at Barry’s brother’s house in June 1947. On April 30, she visited her fiancé in Easton, presumably to celebrate his 24th birthday, and boarded a train back to NYC early the following day. Barry later stated to reporters that “When I kissed her goodbye she was happy and as normal as any girl about to be married.” But things were not entirely as they seemed. Evelyn had inherited her mother’s depression. Of course no one will ever know what went through Evelyn’s mind on that 66-mile train ride home.

After she arrived at Penn Station around 9 am she went across the street to the Governor Clinton Hotel where she wrote a suicide note then walked two blocks east where, shortly before 10:30 am, she bought a ticket to the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Evelyn then stepped out on the parapet, jumped, and cleared the setbacks. A patrolman noticed a white scarf floating down from the upper floors of the building. Moments later he heard a crash and saw a crowd instantaneously converge on 34th street. Evelyn’s corpse landed on the roof of a United Nations Assembly Cadillac limousine parked on 34th street, some 200 ft west of Fifth Ave. Across the street, Robert C. Wiles, a student photographer, also noticed the commotion and rushed to the scene where he took his iconic photo some four minutes after her death. Later, on the observation deck,a detective found her tan coat neatly folded over the observation deck wall, a brown make-up kit filled with family pictures, and a black pocketbook with the note to her sister, Helen Brenner. Brenner identified her sister’s body and, according to Evelyn’s wishes, she was cremated. There is no grave. For his part, Wiles never published another photograph. Her fiancé Barry eventually relocated to Florida. He never married.

Next, I’ll focus on a very interesting and underrated actor: an insouciant badass who marched to his own tune: Leo Robert Mitchum.

Stats

birthdate: September 20, 1923*

*note*: due to the absence of a birth time, this analysis will be even more speculative.

major planets:

Sun: Virgo

Moon: Capricorn

Rising: Sagittarius

Mercury: Libra

Venus: Libra

Mars: Sagittarius

Midheaven: Virgo

Jupiter: Virgo

Saturn: Virgo

Uranus: Pisces

Neptune: Leo

Pluto: Cancer

Overall personality snapshot: She was an extremely capable, kind-hearted, but serious and single-minded person who could focus exceptionally well on her vocation – and it must be a vocation, not just a job, because she had to believe in what she was doing. There was a self-contained and purposeful quality about her which enabled her to pursue her chosen path with quiet determination and long-term stamina. She also hoped that her efforts would help to make the world a better, more efficient and more beautiful place. Towards this end she directed her intellectual powers to question, analyze and fine-tune her medium. She was naturally ambitious, a quick learner, discriminating and industrious, and wanted to give of her very best in whatever she did. Nonetheless, as one of life’s natural critics, she was the first object of her own criticism. So she sometimes sank into despondency; she struggled with self-doubt, self-reproach, and feelings of inadequacy. But she was not a quitter; she learned to let go of old convictions so she could become the superlative professional she wanted to be.

As she was extremely good at managing resources, she could have easily fallen into an organizational role. She was mentally quick and practical, and if she could not get to a teacher, she could teach herself whatever she needed to know. Very much a hands-on person, she was usually able to do-it-herself very much more effectively and economically than almost anyone else, quite possibly to the chagrin of those around her. She wanted the plain facts and the unvarnished truth; therefore she would have made an ideal literary critic or editor. She also required tangible proof of her achievements; she wanted concrete products that bear the mark of her self-expression, her blood, sweat and tears. She may have enjoyed working with her hands to produce exquisitely chiselled fine art or precisely executed pieces of music. It is as though she was born with an assumption that life is about work and dedication. When she won the prize, she did not gloat – she just looked for more work. She may have needed to learn that the quality of her life can be enhanced by periods of frivolous self-indulgence. Her legs were long and gangling. Her most outstanding feature, other than her extraordinary figure, was her wide brilliant smile, shining out of her open face. Although she preferred dressing casually most times, when she did dress up, she was stunning.

Her natural curiosity and sympathetic understanding of a situation allowed her to use her good judgement. Because she was aware of so many options, she could find herself unable to come to a decision. She usually needed someone or something else to provide motivation. However, even though she may have been slow in coming to a decision, once she made it, she stuck to it if she believed she was in the right. She did her best work in supporting roles, providing stability and practical knowledge. Her forte was dealing with details, the trickier the better, although she could get caught up in them. She was honest, idealistic and conscientious. She was also fastidious when it came to matters of health, diet and appearance. She was well-informed about many things, but tried not to get bogged down in endless superficial details and perfectionism. She was not afraid of work and was very resourceful and capable. She also worked well in a team. Emotionally, she was quite serious, and her close relationships may lack some warmth and humour. This can be partly attributed to the fact that he felt a strongly developed sense of responsibility and duty in everything she did. She found himself drawn to people who were responsible and self-sufficient, although she liked to believe that they depended on him for stability and security. She held high standards and had a tendency to be critical, which meant that she could act act quite severely towards subordinates. Her standards may have been so high that nothing ever seemed good enough, leaving her dissatisfied with both himself and life in general. 

She belonged to a generation gifted with original and unusual artistic talents, highly imaginative, secretive and visionary. She personified the Piscean Uranus generation in the sense that she felt uncomfortable facing reality, finding the world a difficult place to survive in. She relied on negative escapism as a preferred way of escaping the harsh reality of the world around her. The unknown and the taboo appealed to her, because she wanted to have the freedom to explore and think for herself. She was part of a very artistically talented and creative generation that wanted to escape from the demands of the world around them into a world of excitement and glamour. Members of this generation love the theater and the cinema, in fact, any sort of creative self-expression. They also believed in the rights of any individual to express themselves. This generation was both idealistic and romantic, selfish and individualistic. McHale embodied all of these Leo Neptunian ideals. Also, as a member of the Leo Neptune generation, she experienced and fully embraced changes in sexual mores and attitudes, changing the way people approach the whole issue of romantic relationships. Changes were also experienced in the relationships between parents and children, with the ties becoming looser. In McHale’s case, her relationship with her mother seemed to be at least difficult, wth McHale expressing concern that she was like her mother. McHale was part of a generation known for its devastating social upheavals concerning home and family. The whole general pattern of family life experienced enormous changes and upheavals; as a Cancer Plutonian, this aspect is highlighted with McHale’s mother leaving the family as well as McHale devastating her family by killing herself.

Love/sex life: She took love to a higher level. She harnessed all her Martian energy and fire and combined it with a romantic dream of perfection. This optimism made her a gloriously enthusiastic lover who looked for something sacred and beautiful in every act of love. But that same faith in love could also make her behave in ways that are wildly reckless and unwise. Even when she looked before she leapt, she never saw anything but the good stuff. She was perhaps the one lover of this type who valued companionship over freedom. She needed one partner—someone toward whom she could channel all her warmth, all her passion, and all her grand hopes for love. Unfortunately, once she established this relationship, or think she had established it, the attention she gave the other party is often sporadic and incomplete. The hard, tedious work of maintaining a relationship and making it grow does not appeal to her and she would like to believe that relationships can take care of themselves. Experience, painful experience, soon taught her otherwise.

minor asteroids and points:

North Node: Scorpio

Lilith: Capricorn

Vertex: Cancer

Juno: Scorpio

Chiron: Aries

Vesta: Sagittarius

Ceres: Cancer

Pallas: Aries

Fortune: Pisces

East Point: Sagittarius

Her North Node in Scorpio dictated that she needed to be careful not to let the more emotional side of her personality overwhelm her. Instead, she should have set out to consciously develop her more practical abilities. Her Lilith in Capricorn ensured that she had a fierce work ethic, needed control, and to be mistress of her own destiny. Her Vertex in Cancer, 8th house dictated that she had a dream for an almost womblike environment that shut out all discordant noise or interference from the outside. There were very deep desires regarding the ideal structure or family and home life. When she did commit herself in a relationship she was really deeply committed and if she felt that her partner was not similarly serious then she struck out at them in defense. Her expectations of others were unrealistic and based on her own feelings of insecurity. She had an internal yearning for an inseparable union with and total commitment from another, come what may. This need was so intense that she may have fantasized all manner of unspeakable actions and reactions if the final dream, once attained, was even threatened. The dark side is that when the reality of her partner didn’t fit this model (and it rarely did totally) she had a difficult time adjusting if faced with a breach of contract of any sort. Once badly hurt there was a tendency to become jaded and guarded in future relationships, thereby passing up the opportunity to explore interactions which might just fulfill out intense needs perfectly.

Juno in Scorpio, she brought a strong sense of fairness and sensitivity to obligations. She liked to keep things private. Strong, silent mates appealed to her; however she didn’t know how to communicate openly. Chiron in Aries, she often felt wounded when it came to her lack of self-assertion. She felt as if she had something to prove. Vesta in Sagittarius, she wanted intellectual freedom.  Ceres in Cancer, she cared for people and animals efficiently. She preferred to train and teach rather than to cuddle and smother. She had a practical expression of domestic concerns. Pallas in Aries, she had the ability to start more projects than the native can physically complete. There may be enough mental pressure to cause strain. Her Part of Fortune in Pisces and Part of Spirit in Virgo dictated that her destiny lay in cultivating compassion, faith and her imagination. She was able to transcend limits. She would have found success by concentrating on higher ideals and helping others. Her destiny and happiness came from following the path indicated by her intuition. Her soul’s purpose asked her to clear away issues from the past in a dispassionate way and develop tolerance. She felt spiritual connections and the spark of the divine when are able to bring order out of chaos. East Point in Sagittarius dictated that she was more concerned with finding final answers, and was, in some way, identified with the absolute. This manifested in her as: “I should be perfect.”  

elemental dominance:

earth

air

She was a practical, reliable woman and could provide structure and protection. She was oriented toward practical experience and thought in terms of doing rather than thinking, feeling, or imagining. Could be materialistic, unimaginative, and resistant to change. But at her best, she provided the practical resources, analysis, and leadership to make dreams come true. She was communicative, quick and mentally agile, and she liked to stir things up. She was likely a havoc-seeker on some level. She was oriented more toward thinking than feeling. She carried information and the seeds of ideas. Out of balance, she lived in her head and could be insensitive to the feelings of others. But at her best, she helped others form connections in all spheres of their daily lives.

modality dominance:

cardinal

She was happiest when she was doing anything new, and she loved to begin new ventures. She enjoyed the challenge of claiming territory. She tended to be an initiator—and a bit territorial as well. Also, she had a tendency to start more things than she could possibly finish.

planet dominants:

Mercury

Saturn

Venus

She was intellectual, mentally quick, and had excellent verbal acuity. She dealt in terms of logic and reasoning. It was likely that she was left-brained. She was restless, craved movement, newness, and the bright hope of undiscovered terrains. She believed in the fact that lessons in life were sometimes harsh, and structure and foundation was a great issue in her life, and she had to be taught through experience what she needed in order to grow. She paid attention to limitations she had and had to learn the rules of the game in this physical reality. She tended to have a practical, prudent outlook. She also likely held rigid beliefs. She was romantic, attractive and valued beauty, had an artistic instinct, and was sociable. She had an easy ability to create close personal relationships, for better or worse, and to form business partnerships.

sign dominants:

Capricorn

Libra

Virgo

She was a serious-minded person who often seemed aloof and tightly in control of her emotions and her personal domain. Even as a youngster, there was a mature air about him, as if she was born with a profound core that few outsiders ever see. She was easily impressed by outward signs of success, but was interested less in money than in the power that money represents. She was a true worker—industrious, efficient, and disciplined. Her innate common sense gave her the ability to plan ahead and to work out practical ways of approaching goals. More often than not, she succeeded at whatever she set out to do. She possessed a quiet dignity that was unmistakable. She loved beauty in all its guises—art, literature, classical music, opera, mathematics, and the human body. She usually was a team player who enjoyed debate but not argument. As a Libra dominant, she was, at her best, an excellent strategist and a master at the power of suggestion. Even though she was likely a courteous, amiable person, she was definitely not a pushover. She tried to use diplomacy and intelligence to get what she wanted. She was a discriminating, attractive, thorough, scientific, hygienic, humane, scientific, woman and had the highest standards. Her attention to detail was second to none and she had a deeply penetrative and investigative mind.

Read more about her under the cut.

Evelyn McHale is the subject of the famous picture than appeared in LIFE magazine, most often referred to as, "The Most Beautiful Suicide."Little is known of Evelyn. she leapt to her tragic death from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, on May 1st, 1947.Among the possessions she left on the observation deck prior to jumping, police found a suicide note that said, "He is much better off without me...I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody."Evelyn's body, strangely intact, landed on a parked United Nations limousine. Photography student Robert Wiles, who happened to be there at the moment, took the famous photograph of her only about four minutes after her death. Elegant, even in death, the strangely beautiful photograph of Evelyn McHale ran in the May 12, 1947 edition of LIFE magazine, becoming one of the most iconic shots of all time. Since then, the picture has been used in several magazines and works of art, most notably by Andy Warhol, who titled his piece on Evelyn, "Suicide (Fallen Body)"Though the demand for more information on the life of miss McHale is heavy, not much else is known about her or the circumstances leading to her tragic fall. (x)

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Yes, this is morbid. but it is also an iconic photograph that everyone from David Bowie to Taylor Swift has used in their own art.

Evelyn Francis McHale

(September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) "The Most Beautiful Suicide"

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. "My fiance asked me to marry him in June, I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody, He is much better off without me ..." she wrote, then she crossed it out, folded it and placed it in her purse and went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. She neatly folded her coat and placed it on the ground, along with her pocketbook containing the note and several family photos, 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.

Was her fiance better off without her? Hard to say, but Evelyn's then-fiance Barry Rhodes did die unmarried and childless in Melbourne, Florida on October 9th, 2007 after a lifetime of seeing his love depicted this way.

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➝ O sᴜɪᴄɪ́ᴅɪᴏ ᴍᴀɪs ʙᴏɴɪᴛᴏ - 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢𝚗 𝙼𝚌𝙷𝚊𝚕𝚎

❖ ─ ✦ ──『✙』── ✦ ─ ❖

Evelyn Francis McHale nasceu em 20 de setembro de 1923 em Berkeley, Califórnia. Era um dos nove filhos de Helen e Vincent McHale. Seu pai era auditor bancário e se mudou para Washington DC quando ela tinha por volta de 7 anos.

Quando seus pais se separaram, Vincent ganhou a custódia dos filhos e se mudou para Tuckahoe, New York. Depois do ensino médio, Evelyn se juntou à um departamento para mulheres do Exército Americano para serviços administrativos, e foi designada para Jefferson City, Missouri.

Após isso ela se mudou para Baldwin, Nova Iorque, e foi contratada como escriturária na Companhia de Entalhação Kitab, na Pearl Street. Conheceu seu noivo Barry Rhodes, um estudante universitário dispensado das Forças Aéreas do Exército dos Estados Unidos.

Em 30 de abril de 1947, McHale pegou um trem de Nova York para Easton, Pensilvânia para visitar Barry. No dia seguinte, depois de deixar a residência de seu noivo, ela voltou para Nova York.

Na manhã de 1º de maio de 1947, Evelyn comprou uma entrada para acessar o observatório do Empire State Building no 86° andar. De acordo com várias testemunhas, ela parecia alegre, sem mostrar quaisquer sinais característicos do que, minutos depois, aconteceria.

Uma vez no lugar pretendido, Evelyn escreveu um bilhete que foi deixado junto ao casaco, subiu no parapeito e saltou. De acordo com testemunhas, havia um guarda a apenas 3 metros de distância da jovem, mas, infelizmente, ele não conseguiu fazer nada para impedir que ela pulasse.

Após cair mais de 170 metros, ela se espatifou no teto de uma limusine, estacionada em frente ao prédio.

Embora o teto da limusine tenha ficado completamente destroçado, Evelyn parecia ter se deitado delicadamente sobre ele, como se tivesse pousado para uma foto.

Depois da morte da jovem, um gradil de 3 metros de altura foi instalado para impedir que pessoas saltassem da plataforma de observação, e os guardas do local receberam treinamento para aprender a identificar possíveis suicidas.

Apesar do impacto, seu corpo não apresentava nenhum arranhão e seu rosto refletia a paz de um sonho tranquilo. Quatro minutos depois, o fotógrafo Robert Wiles estava capturando a imagem, comovido com a serenidade no rosto da menina e com seu corpo estendido quase artisticamente.

Tanto foi assim que a revista Life publicou a imagem com o título “O Suicídio Mais Bonito”.

Barry diz não notou qualquer indicação de suicídio antes de McHale partir. Pessoas da convivência diária de Evelyn confirmaram não notar nada de preocupante na moça de apenas 23 anos.

O Detetive Frank Murray encontrou a nota de suicídio em uma agenda preta ao lado de seu cuidadosamente dobrado casaco de pano sobre a parede da plataforma de observação que dizia:

Seu corpo foi identificado por sua irmã, Helen Brenner.

De acordo com os seus desejos, ela foi cremada sem memorial, serviço ou sepultura.

Barry, o noivo, se formou em Engenharia, se mudou para a Califórnia e nunca se casou. Ele faleceu em 2007, aos  86 anos. O mistério do corpo intacto permanece até hoje na mente de curiosos que estudam a respeito desse incidente.

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Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who took her own life by jumping from the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947.

A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photography student Robert Wiles has become an iconic suicide photograph, referred to as "the most beautiful suicide".

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Hadise'den Yeni Klip: En Güzel İntihar!

Hadise’den Yeni Klip: En Güzel İntihar!

Ülkemizin uluslararası fanlar tarafından belki de en sevilen isimlerinden biri olan Hadise, son şarkısı Hay Hay’ı kliplendirdi. Klibinde 1947 yılında hayatına son veren, bu son ile tarihe geçen En Güzel İntihar olarak bilinen “Evelyn Francis Mchale”nin hikayesinden ilham halan Hadise’nin klibi şarkısı kadar ilgi topladı. Evelyn’in hikayesi ise şu şekilde; nişanlısından ayrıldıktan sonra bir not…

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The Most Beautiful Suicide

The lady we saw in the photo is, unfortunately, dead since 1947 but thanks to the early media which gave us this famous photo taken by a photography student who is Robert Wiles this lady is also one of the most famous dead people we know till this day. Evelyn Francis McHale was just 23 years old when she jumped off from the 86th-floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. She was employed as a bookkeeper. She had a life that started with her mother’s untreated depression and ended up on a top of a parked car. Her suicide note found by the detectives which she was saying “I don't think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother's tendencies.”. Unfortunately, the photo of her named one of the best suicide photos in history. Wiles referred the photo as “the most beautiful suicide” and even on Times the photo described as "technically rich, visually compelling and ... downright beautiful". The photo of Evelyn McHale is sad but surprisingly used by many famous artists such as Andy Warhol, David Bowie and lastly in one of the music videos of Taylor Swift. She will never know that she contributed to a lot of mediated works but she was probably aware that she is doing something which will influence something after her death.

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EL SUICIDIO MÁS HERMOSO

El 12 de mayo de 1947, Evelyn Francis McHale saltó al vacío desde el piso ochenta y seis del Empire State Building. Era contable, tenía veinticuatro años y fecha de boda para el mes siguiente. En su nota de suicido pedía que la incineraran sin dejar rastro. Respetaron su deseo y no hay ninguna tumba con su nombre. Su prometido nunca se casó.

Sin embargo, su fotografía sobre un Cadillac aplastado pasó a la posteridad en las páginas de LIFE Magazine con el apodo de “the most beautiful suicide”.

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Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who committed suicide by jumping from the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. This photograph was taken four minutes after her death by photography student, Robert Wiles. If is now considered among the most iconic suicide photographs in history, referred to as "the most beautiful suicide". Evelyn McHale was born in Berkeley, California, one of nine children to Helen and Vincent McHale. Vincent was a bank examiner and relocated to Washington D.C. in 1930. Her parents divorced shortly afterwards.?Vincent gained custody of all children and moved to Tuckahoe, New York. After graduating from high school Evelyn joined the Women's Army Corps, and was stationed in Jefferson City, Missouri. She later moved to Baldwin, New York and was employed as a bookkeeper at the Kitab Engraving Company on Pearl Street. She met her fiance Barry Rhodes, a college student discharged from the United States Army Air Force. On April 30, 1947, McHale took a train from New York to Easton, Pennsylvania to visit Rhodes. The next day, after leaving Rhodes' residence, she returned to New York City and went to the Empire State Building where she jumped from the 86th floor observatory. Rhodes did not notice any indication of suicide before McHale left. Detective Frank Murray found her suicide note in a black pocketbook next to her neatly folded cloth coat over the observation deck wall which read: "I don't want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don't have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don't think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother's tendencies." Her body was identified by her sister, Helen Brenner. According to her wishes, she was cremated with no memorial, service or grave.

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"The World's Most Beautiful Suicide" - Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20th, 1923 - May 1st, 1947)