Famous figures who took their own lives

Updated: 2014-09-10 13:51

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Hai Zi. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chinese poet Hai Zi, or Zha Haisheng, lived in poverty all his life. Obsessed by writing poems but having nothing, he saw girlfriends regularly leaving him. Suffering depression, he committed suicide by laying in the path of a train at the age of 25. A friend later published all his works, winning him huge fame after his death.