Category: suicide
âI snatched my camera from the car and took two quick shots as [Mary Miller]
seemed to hesitate . . . As quickly as possible I shoved the exposed
film into the case and reached for a fresh holder. I no sooner had
pulled the slide out and got set for another shot than she waved to the
crowd below and pushed herself into space. Screams and shouts burst from
the horrified onlookers as her body plummeted toward the street. I took
a firm grip on myself, waited until the woman passed the second or
third story, and then shot.â
- Labels: art, death, photography, suicide
White, middle-age male suicide has hit 40% in the last 10 years. Why?
Middle aged Americans are turning to suicide in alarming numbers. The reasons include easily accessible prescription painkillers, the mortgage crisis, and most importantly the challenge of America’s troubled economy. The Centre for Disease Control suggest suicide rates due to automobile deaths is in the increase among this age group.
Whilst in the UK, new figures show that men in their forties and fifties are twice as likely to kill themselves as the rest of the population.
That more men take their own lives than women is not new. But in 1981 the menâs total was only about double, or just under, the womenâs. Now itâs nearly four times as many.
Is this due to the austerity measures the UK government have rigidly adhered to or is there something else to it?
The fact that middle-aged men do not feel they have a life anymore due to a number of reasons but chief among them is their workload could be another factor.
Since 1973 wages have pretty much flat-lined. This has meant both couples have to work. It has also increased the pressure on families.
Whatever the reason this is shocking news and has to some degree be attributed to the way we all have to work these days. Slaves to the wage working in a servile state whilst the few get the money whilst the others commit suicide.
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- Labels: crazy, human condition, insanity, suicide, world
I’m getting bored
Being part of mankind
There’s not a lot to do no more
This race is a waste of time
People rushing everywhere
Swarming around like flies
Think I’ll buy a forty four
Give them all a surprise
chorus
Think I’m gonna kill myself
Cause a little suicide
Stick around for a couple of days
What a scandal if I died
Yeah I’m gonna kill myself
Get a little headline news
I’d like to see what the papers say
On the state of teenage blues
A rift in my family
I can’t use the car
I gotta be in by ten o’clock
Who do they think they are
I’d make an exception
If you want to save my life
Brigitte Bardot gotta come
And see me every night
[repeat chorus]
Photograph of Diane Arbus by Allan Arbus
(a film test), c. 1949
Diane Arbus (March 14, 1923 â July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of “deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transvestites, nudists, circus performers) or else of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal.” A friend said that Arbus said that she was “afraid… that she would be known simply as the photographer of freaks”; however, that term has been used repeatedly to describe her.
In 1972, a year after she committed suicide, Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale. Millions of people viewed traveling exhibitions of her work in 1972-1979. In 2003-2006, Arbus and her work were the subjects of a another major traveling exhibition, Diane Arbus Revelations. In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story.
Although some of Arbus’s photographs have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction, Arbus’s work has provoked controversy; for example, Norman Mailer was quoted in 1971 as saying “Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.”
Arbus experienced “depressive episodes” during her life similar to those experienced by her mother, and the episodes may have been worsened by symptoms of hepatitis. Arbus wrote in 1968 “I go up and down a lot,” and her ex-husband noted that she had “violent changes of mood.” On July 26, 1971, while living at Westbeth Artists Community in New York City, Arbus took her own life by ingesting barbiturates and slashing her wrists with a razor. Marvin Israel found her body in the bathtub two days later; she was 48 years old.
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For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat, reports Cord Jefferson January 27, 2011 on www.good.ir. Excluding accidents and illness, 462 soldiers died in combat, while 468 committed suicide. Veterans who, after serving, suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are also at high risk. The study showed that 47 percent of veterans with PTSD had thoughts of suicide before they found help. The internal anguish a soldier experiences after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can be far more severe than that experienced during live external combat.
More than 2 million troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Those who do return often suffer from physical, psychological, and cognitive trauma. More than 40 per 100,000 men from the ages of 20 to 24 take their lives each year. Some deaths, which are not part of these statistics, are due to driving while under the influence of alcohol consumed due to depression. In 2008, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were 75 percent more likely to die in a car accident and 148 percent more likely to die in a motorcycle accident. By making the calculations of 40 per 100,000 per year the numbers of veteran suicides reaches into the tens of thousands nationwide since the beginning of the 9/11 wars…
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Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 â October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts. Harry Houdini died on Halloween. (read more)