The death of Frida Kahlo
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Pain and suffering remained with Frida Kahlo throughout her life. In the last years of her life, her health deteriorated a lot, as she had gangrene In her right leg, and she spent a long time in the hospital and used to live on morphine as a pain reliever, then her leg amputated to the knee and she lived dependent on metal stents. After her suffering with the illness, she passed away in 1954 at the age of 47, due to a lung infection. According to her will, her body was burned and placed inside a jar in her blue house, to end her last message “ I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return”. Frida Kahlo #Mass4025_F20 #PRSQU Image credit: Gisèle Freund, Art-sheep
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