Forty-six years after poet Sylvia Plath took her own life, her son Nicholas has hanged himself. Like his mother, Nicholas “ the son of Plath and poet Ted Hughes “ had struggled for much of his life with depression.

From the Guardian:

The news of his death adds to the tragic history of the family.

His mother, Sylvia Plath, was separated from Ted Hughes when she killed herself by breathing in fumes from the kitchen oven in February 1963.

She prevented the fumes from seeping into her children’s room by sealing the door with towels.

Six years later, Ted Hughes suffered another loss when his mistress gassed herself and their daughter in an apparent copycat suicide.