Then in front of the spreading of suicide phenomenon involving an increasing number of persons of all ages and of every social and working condition, it’s, all the same, limited thinking to solve every single case, even less letting people at risk simply speak.
Vittorio Orefice, a parliamentary journalist and the author of the book”Il male di esistere “(” Le mal de vivre”), could say something on the subject. The subtitle “ With Alessandra in the hell of juvenile depression ” is explicatory enough. Alessandra could commit suicide after many attempts between 2nd and 3rd November, on the dead’s night.
Five days later she would have been 24. A journalist, she had apparently everything to be satisfied with herself: beautiful, of a very good family, loved and spoiled and yet it’s enough to read the terrible letters she would write, maybe more to herself, to understand it wasn’t like that. We can find sentences all the more dreadful since one of the thousands of young people who, in Italy, every year, decides he can’t cope any longer, could have written:”I’m afraid of life….My heart is crying and is telling me to run away, my mind is repeating to me:die, die; life is injustice, pain, bitterness: die, die”.
On reviewing Orefice’s book, Marco Guidi, a journalist, considers suicide epidemic like an epochal emergency, a pandemia and reminds that depression kills more than AIDS, more than cancer and besides a depressed person isn’t even recognized as a sick subject. Guidi himself says that the explanations, journalists give to hide themselves rather than other people the real reasons of certain deaths, are mediocre.
If, on the other hand, it were of use ” to give words to pain”who better than a thirty-nine year old psychiatrist could have done so, by calling a colleague for help rather than throw himself from his terrace in the quarter of Primavalle in Rome?
It’s my impression that the drama of suicide epidemic induces people, probably in good faith, to make use of the instruments they know to defend themselves against the horror and fright caused by the phenomenon: psychiatrists, words, judges, law. The episode relative to the umpteenth suicide“for love”would make us smile, if we weren’t talking of such a dramatic thing:the boyfriend of a girl,who committed suicide after a usual vey banal quarrel between lovers, is arrested for instigation to suicide.
At this point we could suggest the relatives of suicides“for unemployment”to take legal action against the State and Politicians, they voted, not to have found a job to their relative.
In an age in which we thought the technological progress should have made us happier, it’s very difficult to admit that some very ancient biological instincts or worse a genetic subjection can lead so many of us into the gesture, maybe,the least rationally explicable one: to kill oneself in the most terrible ways.
Every time we want to state the epidemical feature of suicide phenomenon and find some causes external to reason,there is somebody who hastens,neurotically, to deny them.
OMS, against every theory that imputes the incidence of suicides to socio-economic, cultural, religious reasons or what have you, hypothesized that the determinant factor may be climate[2].
Vincenzo Consono, the Italian journalist who reports the piece of news, protests against this hypothesy.Instead of thinking of some right objections, like the one that in Portugal,where it’s very sunny, the percentage of suicides is high, the journalist shows his refusal about a natural origin of the phenomenon:”It is difficult to accept such a naturalistic determinism, such an ineluctable climatic totalitarism, it is hard to believe that civilization , which originated on a natural primogenial substratum, can’t have influence on social man, that nature, after wiping out, all of a sadden, his reason, throws him again into the vague sea of existence, into the panic of what is incomprehensible, into the unbearableness of threat [2]”.
[2] It seems, therefore, within the Mediterranean borders, where the effluvium of heat and light from the benevolent sun, in that temperature, in that balance, man is less disposed to suicide. Out of those borders, in the zones where darkness and cold are predominant, man is more easily swallowed up into the whirpool of melancholy at the apex of despair the fatal result of which is self-annihilation.
Translated fron Il Virus Intelligente by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in
4°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Fourth part)
5°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Fifth part)
6°)Suicides ( Le Mal de vivre Sixth part)
7°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Seventh part)
8°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Eighth part)
9°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Nineth part)
10°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Tenth part)
11°)Suicides (LeMal de vivre Eleventh part)
12°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Twelfth Part)
13°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part)
14°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fourteenth Part)
15°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XV part)
16°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Sixteenth part)
17°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVII part)
18°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVIII part)
19°) (Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XIX part)
20°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XX part)
21°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Twenty-first part)
See also:
1°)Suicides (Le Mal de vivre First part)
2°) Suicides (Le Mal de vivre Second part)
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