Nicholas Hughes, Son of Sylvia Plath, Commits Suicide

Nicholas Hughes, the son of famed poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, killed himself at his home in Alaska.

On Monday, Hughes’ sister Freida Hughes announced that he hanged himself in his Alaska home on March 16 after a long battle with depression. He was 47.

"It is with profound sorrow that I must announce the death of my brother, Nicholas Hughes, who died by his own hand on Monday March 16, 2009 at his home in Alaska. He had been battling depression for some time,” Frieda said in a statement Monday.

Hughes’ mother Sylvia killed herself in 1963, when Hughes was only 1-years-old. Many speculate that her suicide contributed to his death. A family friend argues, “Nick wasn’t just the baby son of Plath and Hughes and it would be wrong to think of him as some kind of inevitably tragic figure. He was a man who reached his mid-forties, an adventurous marine biologist with a distinguished academic career behind him and a host of friends and achievements in his own right. That is the man who is mourned by those who knew him.”

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