On October 18, 2005, six years after her death, the Guardian newspaper published an apologetic text in its "Corrections and Clarifications" column, in which it apologized to Kane's family and close friends for the pain it had caused them. It also urged readers to look again and carefully at her work, removing from their minds the myth created by a suicide. In your hands, you hold a shocking work in which Kane tries – in her own unique way – to explain why she no longer wants to live. A purely desperate but brilliant mind that was drowning within a wounded soul. Number 4.48 was the time that defined her suicide. Although her writing can in no way be described as romantic, her suicide created a romantic myth around her name and she was included in the list of the "Damned" of literature.