Dead Rebels

So call up the members of the club - this is time to revisit the Romeo and Juliet story I think - where she was playing dead and he killed himself instead of trying to find her, which meant she was stuck down there - she'd done a dodgy deal with Hades too, because of family stuff and ended up dead because she hadn't sussed out what could happen - so this space could also include Heathcliff and Cathy ( cue kate bush), Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Anna Karenina - any more for any more ? and if we want to go contemporary, who better than Paula Yates and ( whisper it) Princess Diana - more dodgy deals about death that didn't work out - and Mr H down there rubbing his hands about all the pretty ladies who can't escape his realm - anyone got any more tragically suicidal heroines ?
Ruling out Sylvia Plath - not accidental - she meant it !!

Can't resist quoting Dorothy Parker on suicide :

Razors pain you, rivers are damp,
Acids stain you and drugs cause cramp -
Guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful -
You might as well live !!

I like her wit - she once described an actress as going through the whole gamut of emotions from A to B - ouch!! and on being told of the death of (President) Calvin Coolidge she asked " How could they tell ? "
When told about the halloween activity of ducking for apples, commented, "
Change one letter in that sentence and you've got the story of my life"....and, at a society party "If I have one more drink, I'll be under the host" smart lady....or possibly : "That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say 'no' in any of them."