Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide is a 1999 book by Kay Redfield Jamison on suicide and manic depression.
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First Sentence: NO ONE KNOWS who the first was to slash his throat with a piece of flint, take a handful of poison berries, or intentionally drop his spear to the ground in battle. Schizophrenia is the price homo sapiens has had to pay for acquiring language.
Genetic causes for suicide and mental illness remind me of Naturalism in literature, see hereditary taint (Ebing, etc).
Interesting dichotomy between personal freedom (see Thomas Szasz episode, see also the right to die), and social responsibility towards the survivors.
- 1994, State of New York Vs. Thomas Szasz. The court ruled Thomas Szasz had to pay $650,000 to the widow of one of his patients he told to stop taking his lithium, who then committed suicide with battery cables a few months later. Szasz also "failed to render psychiatric medical care and treatment in conformity with customary and accepted sound standards of medical care."...and numerous other similar charges. It was also the American Psychiatric Association's insurance that paid his charge, and as much as he hated the organization, he belonged to it.
Durkheim categorized ways of committing suicide by country. See Volksgeist.
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs):
United States, Meriwether Lewis, New York, Air Force Academy, Golden Gate Bridge, Suicide Team, William Clark, Thomas Jefferson, Drew Sopirak, World Health Organization, Anne Sexton, Emil Kraepelin, John Wilson, Mount Mihara, Pacific Ocean, Robert Burton, Sylvia Plath, University of Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush, Columbia University, Governor Lewis, Margaret Davis King, National College Health Risk Behavior Survey, North America, Sri Lanka
