Whilst looking into the Empire State Building, I came across a photograph by photography student Robert Wiles, which has been described as an image of "the most beautiful suicide". On 1st May 1947, a 23 year old woman left her fiancée and chose to commit suicide by throwing herself off of the Empire State Building. She left a note with her things left on the observatory deck "he is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out before jumping. In her determination to end her life she leaped clear of the set backs and landed on a United Nations Limousine parked at the curb. Wiles was on the street that it happened on and got this photo minutes after her death. I find the photo strangely memorising. It’s odd to think that something so horrific and sad as ending ones life in such a violent way could somehow result in something that looks so peaceful, so calming, almost beautiful….
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