Decline and Death
Despite her professional successes, and her ostensibly happy motherhood, Ure's mental health deteriorated.
On 2 April 1975 she appeared on the London stage with Honor Blackman and Brian Blessed in The Exorcism, and, after a disastrous opening night, she was found dead of an overdose of alcohol and barbiturate, by her husband Robert Shaw in their London home. She was 42 years old.
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“Considered physiologically, everything ugly weakens and saddens man. It reminds him of decay, danger, impotence; it actually reduces his strength. The effect of ugliness can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever anyone feels depressed, he senses the proximity of something “ugly.” His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride—they decline with ugliness, they rise with beauty.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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