Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), a well-known American poet with an incredible depth of ego and sincerity who also committed suicide at age of 32 by putting her head in the gas oven. To read some of her poems, you can check out the online collection of Sylvia Plath. With all respect to Ms. Plath, what. a. heavy metal. babe.

"And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty.

And like the cat I have nine times to die."

- Sylvia Plath's Lady Lazarus (1962)