“I wonder why we are still fascinated with her after so many years?”
Because it follows a plot:
Famous and popular, handsome or pretty, young, rebellious or reckless, die by way of strange circumstances.
Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, JF Kennedy, Elvis, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Jackson for example.
I don’t fascinate easily. Some themes continue, like doctors giving out drugs that make it possible for rich famous people to accidentally overdoes themselves.
I do NOT think Elvis, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Smith or Jackson intended suicide. No opinion about Marilyn Monroe.
And George Reeves (Superman).