04 Feb

#34 Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part)

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Suicides

(Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part)

Charles-Manson

In the years of youth protest rebellion was rarely expressed with suicides, very often with acts of aggressiveness. On 9^th August 1969 four followers of Charles Manson’s satanic sect murdered, in a villa, in Los Angeles, five people, a pregnant woman among them: Sharon Tate, an actress and Roman Polanski’s wife.

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Eventually, refusal-flight-suicide replaced protest-rebellion-aggressiveness(terrorism, homicide). The remark might completely refute the thesis of a genetic origin in homicide and suicide behaviours since they are very different among them for results, but as we said at the beginning of the chapter, genetic types inclined to both aggressiveness and suicide appear with population increasing.

On the other hand it has been demonstrated more than once that a depressive syndrome may result, depending on the phase, in both homicides and suicides.

We could even suppose that a maniac-depressive syndrome may be present in society itself and according to phases( historical periods), it may cause phenomenons which are apparently contrasting.

In the years , following 1968,(maniac phase) violence and terrorism, at present(depressve phase) depression and suicide.

depression

Nowadays young people and women who can’t often find a position in society are probably susceptible to the difficulty of adaptability. Depression and suicide are widespread among those two categories. Particularly suicide is spreading epidemically in lower and lower ages. Epidemic starts with suicides among adolescents for quite banal causes: a failed love affair, a bad mark at school, a simple rebuke from their parents We can go on with suicides in younger and younger age, like the one of a nine-year-old child who hanged herself in Trapani after a quarrel with her younger sister.

minor suicides

The refusal of recognizing all this was immediate by Luigi Sarno, a professor of clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Palermo University, who can’t believe in” a cold suicide choice”.

“At nine years of age – the teacher says – children aren’t and can’t be aware of suicide, since at that age they can’t perceive the sense of despair, because they don’t know the meaning of life, much less, of death.

The expert goes on speaking about image culture, responsability of television and pauses in education and then accuses parents to allow their children too much.

At this point it would be necessary to ask him what the three girls of eleven, twelve and fourteen years of age who, holding their hands, threw themselves from the eighth floor of a condominium at Balaschikha, a little town few kilometres far from Moscow.

What pause of education, what tv programme induced a child from Como, of eleven years of age, to commit suicide by throwing himself from the balcony of his house, after writing his parents a note where, being sorry to cost them too much, he spoke explicitly of dead people and funerals:”I’m sorry to make you spend much money to buy me things that cost a lot. Sorry”. And again:”Bury me in the home garden”. In this case the disownment of suicide came from the Judicial Authorities:” But it might also have been an accident”.

When , after a bad fall from his moped, a fourteen-year-old boy was forbidden by his parents to use it, he answers with a suicide. Friends and relatives can do but put his gesture down to the day before’s head trauma.

Luckily somebody is trying to study the phenomenon more seriously.

Gabriel Levi, a children’s neuropsychiatrist at the Centre for the Prevention of the Psychopathologic Risk of developmental age at” La Sappienza” University, recognizes, for suicides, predisposing factors, also genetic and individual, as subjects at risk, young people who change their mood easily and suddenly, passing from sadness and isolation to a false euphoria.

To conclude, from 1955 to 1994 suicides between ten and nineteen years of age have doubled, passing from 3.6 to 6.1 out of 100,00[2].