How was The Masque of Red Death influenced by Poe's life experiences?

Poe's life as a young man was shrouded in death. Both his mother and his beloved foster mother died from tuberculosis. Then his wife, who was also his young cousin, died at a young age from tuberculosis as well. Poe lost the three most signifcant women in his life to the same horrible disease. He constantly battled depression, debt, poverty, and alcoholism. These experiences led him to write the Masque of the Red Deathto illustrate his own feelings about everyone's inability to escape death no matter how happy or rich someone might be, not one soul will be able to escape the clutches of death.