Fuck. I mean, really… fuuuuuuuck.
Bugsy Siegel, shortly after being shot to death on his couch.
Lee Harvey Oswald, post-mortem, taken through body bag.
1952. The world was too much for him. His dog tries to reach him but can’t.
A shot taken during the racially charged Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles, 1943.
Over a month after the bomb was dropped, a lone citizen of Hiroshima walks across the barren landscape.
Vienna, 1945. Anesthetized to the horrors of war after years of fighting, citizens casually pass by dismembered German soldiers. The picture on the left show the blown off legs of one, the picture on the right shows the decapitated head of another.
Suicide on the church steps. Sometimes, life just gets to be too much to bear.
The most beautiful suicidal photo: Evelyn McHale, 1947
On May Day, just after leaving her fiance, 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.
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French, British and American soldiers celebrate freedom from their Japanese prisoner of war camp, August 29, 1945.
