The most beautiful suicide

So I found a link to a kottke.org post that had an amazing picture from a suicide in 1947. A 23 year old woman jumped off the empire state building, landing on the roof of a car. The picture was taken just a few minutes after her death.

"On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody,' ... Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale's death Wiles got this picture of death's violence and its composure."

For the whole story see
http://www.kottke.org/08/07/the-most-beautiful-suicide