How the Other Side 'Lives'

by Blythe Flynn

What if Lydia had gone through with ending it all when she decided she'd rather be dead with the Maitlands than alive with her father and stepmother? Here's her suicide note. Short and honest.

How the Other Side 'Lives'

Premise: What if Lydia had gone through with suicide as she had originally planned? Here is her completed suicide note… (Though I changed her means to an end…)

Disclaimer: I do not have the rights to the movie 'Beetlejuice' (though I wish I did!!!)

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I am alone. I am utterly alone. By the time you (if anybody) read this, I will be long gone, just like everybody wanted. In my so-called life I've spent more enjoyable time with the dead than with the living. Now I get to join them. I can't bear another moment in the world of the not-yet-dead.

I was always weird and unnatural. I am sure that had I not been awoken by reality and subconscious consciousness, I would have become a precocious child prodigy. Shameless, isn't it? But I know more about 'real' than most normal, happy people. I know too much. I know how the other side 'lives,' and I want to be like them. Life is simply too menial.

As I conclude this final expression of my misery, I am standing, perched on my bedside table. After I finish in a minute I shall kick it away, leaving me hanging by a makeshift noose made of my paternal unit's obnoxious plaid ties.

Bring me to the other side.

-Lydia