A finalist in the Miss Universe New Zealand pageant has killed herself at the age of 23. Amber-Lee Friis had her whole life ahead of her, but the demons of insecurity and self-doubt took over.
Tag: Alienation
A Young Man’s Brief Dance of Death
In the early hours of thet next morning, May 18, 1980, Ian Curtis wound a rope around his neck, hooked it up to a ceiling beam and hanged himself. He was 23.
Book on alienation still an ‘Angry Young Man’ classic
‘The Outsider’ written by a 24-year-old Englishman in the Reading Room of the British Museum while he was living in a sleeping bag on London’s Hampstead Heath.