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Achilles stops eating. Job curses the day he was born. Tristan loses himself, and Catherine lets herself die of grief.They are all suffering, yet none of them says: Hey! I’m depressed. Depression, as we understand it today, is a modern diagnostic category, but literature has always told us stories of men and women who stop…
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It was around 9 p.m. when Elizabeth died. After giving birth to her daughter Katherine, she endured almost two weeks of agony, excruciating pain, fever, and relentless hemorrhages led her to her death on February 11, 1503. February 11 was also her birthday. She had just turned 37. Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of King…
Beyond Death 