It's a bit surprising that we haven't seen more occasions of tortured artists turning their suicide into an art piece.
The thought that brought this up is my idea for an art piece actually. Someone that wants to release a series of art, 39 premade versions and a 40th that incorporates blood or something from their death. Then only allowing all of them to be released at the same time, posthumously.
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Thats horrifying to think about
The show 13 Reasons Why reportedly led to some copycat suicides
Probably a lot of them tried. But got the same amount of attention as their life work - so nobody knows about.
The one thing they don't tell about being an artist, it for to be successful it isn't enough to have great skill and creativity - they need to have the ability to sell themselves. And that's how the tortured artist born (plus sprinkle some mental disorder on top).
So in my theory they are tortured because of being nameless and nobody knows of them - so because of this, nobody knows of them being alive or committing suicide. The tree falling in the woods kinda thing?
I hope no-one ever does. Suicide is contagious, and the results of something like this would be truly awful.
I hope the same. It actually made me second guess if I should even post the idea. So just in case, the national suicide hotline in the US is 988. The rest can be found HERE.
My guess is that if you're in such a bleak frame of mind that you're considering suicide, your artistic creativity is also at its lowest point.
There was a semi-famous (edit: and possibly fake, upon further digging) artistic suicide where some dude used various lengths of rope and piano wire to dismember themselves after jumping off a bridge, so you had arms and legs and such hanging at various heights, with just a torso and head hanging by the neck at the bottom.
There is also a very well-known phenomenon (at least in the art world) where the value of an artists work will increase exponentially as soon as they die. Interestingly, the value of their work increases more if they die by suicide than if they die by other causes.
One could argue that protest suicides, like those monks that set themselves on fire, are arguably an art piece.
I think some of the issue is that the 'piece' may be easily misunderstood. For example, I think it's mostly wrong to involve another person in your suicide...but if someone walks into a gun store, buys a shotgun, and then shoot themselves in front of the clerk...well, the gun store clerk sells guns. Tools that are meant to make living things not live anymore. Like. You should be aware of that if you work at a gun store. Witnessing the cessation of life is a normal job hazard in that line of work.
Thanks for putting that out in the universe
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