doppelgangrene:

β€œUnlike Hamlet, who rationally ponders the costs and benefits of suicide, the girl is drawn to it by forces larger than herself, forces that are both outside and inside of herself: she is not pure consciousness but a pure pathological death drive.”

β€” Magda Romanska,Β β€œNecr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity, and the Making of Modern Aesthetics”