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be prepared to kill herself,” p. 165; “She stripped…asleep in familiar arms” and “surprised by her
suicide,” p. 397; “For Ernest Hemingway…that fear,” “woman’s way out,” “I’m so fascinated…
dying perfect,” and “a Sleeping Beauty,” all from p. 216.
Chart of suicide methods by fatality rate: “Lethality of Suicide Methods,” Harvard T. H. Chan
School of Public Health, January 6, 2017, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-
matter/case-fatality, accessed March 17, 2019.
“Sleepmonger, deathmonger…I’m on a diet from death”: Anne Sexton, “The Addict,” in The
Complete Poems (New York: Open Road Media, 2016), p. 165.
Look at how suicides from carbon-monoxide poisonings declined in the years after 1975. It’s just
like the chart of British suicides at the end of the town-gas era. See Figure 4 in Neil B. Hampson
and James R. Holm, “Suicidal carbon monoxide poisoning has decreased with controls on
automobile emissions,” Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. 42 (2): 159-64, March 2015.
