Remembering Virginia Woolf today

Today (March 28) in 1941 Virginia Woolf with stones in her pockets walked into River Ouse in Lewes, England. Was she thinking about the last line of her beloved novel The Waves? “Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”

During her last bout of depression and breakdown, she went mad hearing inside her head (auditory hallucination) a chorus of birds singing in Greek. I wonder whether she could be saved had the SSRI and SNRI (popular antidepressants) been available then? I recall Arvid Carlsson, in his Nobel Lecture in 2000 said that the suicide rate was reduced by about 20% a few years after the SSRI became available.