Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide

Here is another interesting case - another possible case of "Nesting" when one suicide victim chooses not to go to the Light, but rather to those she left behind.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5956380.ece

Nicholas Plath died by his own hand - by hanging - in 2009, after battling depression for many years. Not only did Nicholas's mother Sylvia Plath, commit suicide during his infancy by asphyxiating herself in a gas oven, but six years later, his step mother died the same way after killing her four year old daughter.

From the perspective of spirit attachment, it seems extremely likely that Sylvia stayed behind, attaching herself to her widowed husband Ted Hughes's next wife. Poetry exists which shows Sylvia's anger and bitterness toward her husband. It is common knowledge that they separated when Nicholas was 9 months old, due to Ted's affair with another woman, Assia Wevill. Several months later, Sylvia took her life.

Sylvia may have interfered with Ted's next relationship intentionally, or might simply have wanted to continue to be with her children. Since the suicidal person feels she has failed in her attempt because she feels her life has not been completely extinguished, she can find herself in the body of a loved one, continuing to want to kill herself once and for all. Because Assia was inclined to kill her own child and then kill herself, it seems likely that Sylvia's anger was influencing Assia's thoughts, words and deeds. It may all have been about causing pain to Ted.

It is also likely that, after the second wife killed herself, the spirit of Sylvia Plath may have gone to her youngest child, her son Nicholas, and stayed with him all of his life. Of course, she would have had no malintent towards her son, only perhaps guilt for abandoning him, and she may never have known that by staying with him, she caused his severe depression and eventual suicide.

I wanted to know what may have caused Sylvia's depression, and found that her strict and apparently cruel father had died of complications of diabetes when Sylvia was 8 years old. It could be considered slow suicide, since Otto thought his symptoms were due to having cancer, and he neglected medical treatment until it was too late. It appears perhaps he felt inclined to stay with his young child, as parents do, and caused her years of depression and misery. Shortly before her death in 1962, she wrote a poem entitled "Daddy", indicating she felt haunted by her dad, referencing her first suicide attempt when she "tried to get back, back to you."

From the perspective of spirit attachment, I think it all started with Otto Plath, who didn't want to abandon his parental post when he died, and inadvertently caused his daughter Sylvia a life of morbid thoughts and emotional pain, by remaining with her. This attachment would keep the pain of their relationship and memories of the abandonment caused by his death fresh and agonizing for her on a daily basis.

I can only hope that if Otto and Sylvia were attached to Nicholas, they finally went to the Light...