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Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and Preventable Tragedies
act. In late modernity, what pushes someone into suicidal ideation has largely shifted. Most often it’s not the feeling of a failed bold action but rather a sense that none of your actions matter at all, that any action you take is meaningless.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Externality and heightened risk of suicide may go hand in hand, and not only in adults but in younger people as well.
Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance
Two Professors Found What Creates a Mass Shooter. Will Politicians Pay Attention?
Melanie Warnerpolitico.com
What bothers me most about this inflammatory language is that it provides ideological cover for only the shittiest of knee-jerk solutions. In the Progressive era, Beauregard observes, commentators believed problems could at least be fixed. Terms like “crisis,” “doom loop,” and “urban death” carry a far more intractable connotation or at least sugge... See more
John D. Zhang • Tales of the City
The Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran said that suicide is the only right a person truly has. Life can become unbearable in all respects, and “this world can take everything from us . . . but no one has the power to keep us from wiping ourselves out.” Perhaps not surprisingly, Cioran, a man “obsessed with the worst,” died an insomniac and recluse in
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