Marilyn Monroe chose to pursue her career rather than be a little wife as her first husband wanted her to be. What happened? She made some movies where she embarrassed herself, became a sex symbol, and died shot by the CIA at the age of 36. I do not call that a successful life. She had great potential to be a star and a star is what she became, but what did that win her but misery? She has a touch of immortality because she’ll likely never be forgotten, but she left no descendants to remember her with love, no one to inherit her infectious laugh or charming eyes or the love in her heart.