Separability is not hereditary property

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I have to prove that separability is not hereditary property. If I can prove that every topological space is a subspace of some separable topological space . Then is it enough or not! Please help! Thank you in advance

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Yes, that would indeed be enough (and indeed is the right way to approach the problem, in my opinion). In fact there is a very simple way to embed a given topological space in a larger space which is separable:

Just add a single point, and make that point belong to every (nonempty) open set in the larger space.