Kate Chopin's Biography Updated

As told in her biography, Kate Chopin had a pretty awful life, disregarding the fact that she lived during a time period when women were under suppression by their male "overlords". Her life was surrounded by death and loss throughout her family. To top it off, her life was not only surrounded by death but she died of a cerebral hemorrhage after enduring the struggles she endured. I think that the deaths in her family played a key role in her stories. I've only read two of her short stories, but in the both of them the main character, both women, died and when they died they were miserable and died a miserable death. In Desiree's Baby, the main character, Desiree, lost the love of her husband, after which she took herself and the child and committed murder/suicide. Then there is The Joy that Kills, where the main character, Mrs. Mallard, thinks her husband is dead and is free from his "tyranny" and upon finding out he isn't, instantly dies from her heart disease.
It seems like these deaths in her stories symbolize more than what people think. It seems as if these stories are a cry for death to come, take her and to end the struggles and stress's of her life. Let’s recap, it first began with the deaths of both her sisters that died when they were infants before she turned five. Being five, she might not understand the concept of death, but there is still a void left by their presence being gone. After that her father is killed in a horrifying accident when the bridge his train was crossing collapsed. Once again at that age she might not understand the concept of death, but that doesn't overshadow the fact that she has to learn the answer to the question "where is daddy?". Chopin then goes to live with her mom, grandmother and great-grandmother, who are all widows, meaning she lost not only her dad, but also her grandfather and great-grandfather. She more than likely knew them both if she knew her grandmother and great-grandmother. Chopin then goes on to live a pretty decent life, until the Civil War comes along, which ripped apart the nation and snatched her away from her best friend Kitty Garesche. Sure it's not as bad as losing her sister's and dad, but nevertheless she has lost someone important in her life, then her grandmother dies directly before Christmas which should be a happy time of sharing gifts, not mourning over the lost of a family member. Her friend comes back, but then goes away on her own to become a nun and she also loses her brother. Chopin goes on to get married in 1870 and has seven children with her husband, who dies after twelve years of marriage and her last remaining sibling died sometime before her fifth year of marriage. Once again she has lost someone important in her life and is left with the responsibility of raising seven kids. Finally after two years of being on her own she moves back in with her mom, who dies the following year leaving her by herself to raise her children again. That's nine deaths, ten if you count the death of her friendship with Kitty, over a 30-year period. That might not seem like much during given the time interval but it is when the people who died are the individuals who were close and dear to you.
On top of the deaths and the seven children she had to raise on her own she has her book career that doesn't go very far because she is silenced by a society that doesn't yet value the women as they should. It seems that these stories she wrote provided release for her tortured soul as the women of the stories tortured souls are released from the indignity society has bestowed upon them and the misery they faced in their daily lives. But its through death, which makes one wonder, is it death that she hopes to escape her life and release her tortured soul?