An interesting photo..

[ironglow]

  Below is a photo I found in one of those old time photo collections.  It was called Time magazine's, 'most beautiful suicide' ..

 It was called that, since the young lady, Evelyn McHale, who jumped from the Empire State Building in 1947 as a suicide...ended with such a calm,
   serene expression..  Click on the color photo in the story, to catch the expression best..

  It looks like the Cadillac she landed upon, didn't fare so well either !  The story..  https://www.suicidecleanup.com/evelyn-mchale-beautiful-suicide/

[ironglow]

  Landed on Cadillac from the 86th floor...  In another article, it said her mother's "tendancies" was a a case of depression, which was unrecognized and
   thus, undiagnosed at that time..

[DDZ]

Don't think I ever saw that photo, or remember hearing about it.

[ironglow]

Don't think I ever saw that photo, or remember hearing about it.

   Indidn't either, but there are too manyrelated news reports available to deny the apparent story.

[Land_Owner]

Gross. Do we really need that here? With all the REAL trama we have between one another, borrowing someone else's misery is troubling, regardless of serenity in depression and death.

[ironglow]

   Come now, we we are nearly all adult men here, who I suspect, should be able to handle a bit of shock from an  80 year old photo... 

   I have noticed a recent censoring trend by the media in recent years..where they refuse ton document in photo or movies, actual news of this sort.

  After WW2, the news and publications were filled with photos taken in Hitler's death camps...piles of bodies etc.,   We saw in news movies, axction shots rthgat came from places such as D Day , June 6, 1944..where our troops were falling , one after the other.

   We even saw the burning crash of the Hindenburg...a rigid gas bag, filled with hydrogen...just waiting for an errant spark.

    As late as 9/11 in 2001 we witnessed in real time the destruction of nearly 3,000 humans at one fell swoop....but now, I guess we are so
   unstable, that we cannot stand to view death in any form..whether as it happens or as shown by the after photos.

    Yes from the dawn of moving pictures, news reels carried candid views of two world wars and many catastrophies...yet peoiple still remained
   quite civilized, an dnot near so madly insane as some are today.

[Land_Owner]

There is a morality and should be a dignity in death rather than a static display at which to gawk.  Where are our manners? Death does not become her. She was a real person who should be honored even in death.

Today's youth use camera phones to record every detail rather than participate in Life. This 80-year old photo proves that that "energy" is in the world today as an inditement of an unkind and uncaring public

[Mule 11]

It bothers me more when women and especially children do this. I censor it from movies and don’t allow this in conversation around my children. Garbage in garbage out. I believe this is a pushed thought and is found way to much as a story line in print and film causing more of the same in individuals, making it happen to often as if there is a green light from repetitious thought which has been placed in the mind from overuse.

[Land_Owner]

My best friend committed suicide at 80 years old. It is still too soon. After 55 years of shooting and hunting - he MISSED and blew his face off.  In my Mind's Eye, I can't see him like that

So, I have an aversion to photographs of suicides, and I don't care how sirene they are. 

[GTS225]

My issue with the pic is that color photography wasn't in common use until the 60's, so it appears that the photo in discussion has been doctored by colorization. Even though color photos did exist earlier then the photo's claimed date. Makes me wonder how much other "doctoring" has been done to it.
Remember, AI is really getting to be a "thing" now, much to our collective detriment.

Roger