How Does Marilyn Monroe Still Exist Today

“I restore myself when I'm alone,” said Marilyn Monroe a week before she killed herself. Monroe was found dead on August 5, 1962. She either committed suicide, overdosed on pills, or was murdered in her home in Brentwood, California. The investigators are not sure who was involved, but some seem to think that either it involved her maid, John F. Kennedy, or the doctors who brought her body back from the hospital multiple times. Marilyn Monroe’s death raised a lot of awareness throughout the United States. We can lose things we love in an instant if we are not careful. The editors at Biography.com said, “Marilyn never met her father. She grew up only with her mother, who was diagnosed with psychiatric problems and was later placed in an mental institution. As an adult, Monroe would maintain that one of her earliest memories was of her mother trying to smother her in her crib with a pillow. Without her mother, Marilyn lived in foster homes and orphanages. Because she hated these situations, she needed to find a way out. She dropped out of highschool at 15 and married Jimmy Doughetry. Their marriage ended after he made her choose him or her acting career.” (Marilyn Monroe) There are many theories on how Marilyn Monroe died. Some say she was assassinated by people working for John F. Kennedy, only because Marilyn threatened to tell everyone about …show more content…
You see her on clothing items, T.V., and even songwriters use her in their songs. Society is still obsessed with Monroe because she was one of America’s biggest mysteries. These theories tell us that there was a lot more to investigate on this case, but everyone tries too hard to believe one certain thing. We feel obligated to trust one of these theories because we don’t know what else to believe, since we weren’t there to witness anything. We just have to listen to the stories of the people that were closest to her at the