<p>One can write about death. Preferably not one's own. </p>
<p>The UVa website suggested previously gives examples of both "good" and "bad" writing about death:</p>
<p>A few of the best essays that I read last year pertained to death. The writers all got into their first choice, top 10 schools. </p>
<p>It can be done successfully, but one has to be personal, specific, precise, detailed--just like in any good essay.</p>
<p>thank you again!</p>
<p>however, it seems the consensus is that suicide is not a "smart" topic to write about. so i have decided to avoid it.. but from my question. i've really gotten good feedback from everyone (thank you ADad again!) about how to write a good essay!</p>
<p>Not suicide. I agree, don't write about that. That's why I said, "preferably not one's own."</p>
<p>But deaths of those known or near to one, how death has affected one's life--these things and others can be written about if one feels a sort of personal calling to it, if one can write personally, precisely, specifically, meaningfully about one's experiences with death.</p>
<p>ahh.. =) thank you so much! lol sorry! i thought you were being um humorous with the "prefereably not one's own" haha. ! ok =) i got it.. thank you!</p>
<p>Well, you never know, yubi. I hear countless very qualified vampires apply to Harvard every year and get rejected because their essays about their own deaths freak out the adcoms. ;)</p>
<p>But seriously, if you can handle death without sounding like you're either whining or going off on a philosophical lecture, it's a good essay topic.</p>