So as for very young people’s suicides, also for grown-ups’ a different explanation for every single case is sought, instead of examining the phenomenon in its epidemiological aspect. It’s as if the virus’s responsability in a flu epidemic were completely denied and from time to time the causes were found only in predisposing factors: young or old age, concomitant diseases, stress, cooling. Undoubtedly these factors are important to determine those who, during the flu, fall ill and don’t,but the virus is always the first cause.
The existence of an only prime cause can be assumed in suicide pandemia as well.
A different cause is sought for every case. Apparently there is one, but eventully causes are so many, often quite banal and in contrast as to annul one another.
One of the “causes ” of suicide is, for example, military service, both in the imminence or during it, but there are also cases in which one commits suicide because he was rejected for military service.
Imprisonment has always been a strong incentive to suicide, yet we find an increase of the phenomenon also among warders and there is even somebody who commits suicide for fear of leaving the jail: a thirty-four-year-old prisoner, few days before being released, inserted his head into a plastic bag and, probably with the help of a gas bomb, soffocated.
Religious people or aspirants frequently commit suicide, even with a rosary in their hands or reading the Bible, better if haunted by remote visions or voices; on the contrary one can do so also, an Indian woman of thirty years of age, not to be admitted to religious vows[1].
Rape may cause suicide, either as victims or as rapists, real or supposed. A victim,” a beautiful girl who loved life and her fiancè”, couldn’t stand her molester had been acquitted of the charge of violence. A nice job, a handsome fiancè, a recent holiday at Palma di Maiorca, hadn’t prevented her from carrying out her tragic gesture[2].
Rape may be only a marginal fact for a suicide somehow inevitable. If he who rescues a woman that had thrown herself into the water, keeps her segregated and rapes her for four days, the second successful attempt( a jump off ) seems to be justified.
Rape, real or presumed, may be a cause for suicide, also for the offender( or unjustly accused)
An eight-year-old child’s mother commits suicide because she was charged with paedophilia. An old couple and their two children commit a collective suicide owing to the same charge.
A charge for homicide may be a reason which drives to suicide, like the case of a night watchman at the shrine of Lourdes.
Many murders of wives, children or colleagues, serial killers, various” monsters”, famous “monsters’ brothers” , in their turn charged with homicide and rape, commit suicide or claim, from the jail, their right to euthanasia.
Witnesses and victims of usury and racket commit suicide for fear of being killed(!), but also usurers and bosses of the life of crime do. The latter, with their suicides, break one of the taboos, more rooted in the culture of mafia. Also this explosion of “honourable” suicides, unimaginable until a short time ago and that tells a lot about the pandemic feature of the phenomenon, is dismissed by magistrates as ” isolated cases, consiquences of individual choices”.
As for us we can’t do but follow the logical line of our theory by pointing out that, when aggressiveness, for different reasons, can turn outside any longer, may be turned towards people themselves.
This turnabout shows it’s a general tendency involving groups, populations, the most heterogeneous and opposite ones [3] among them and distrbuted everywhere in Italy and in the world. Being unemployed and seriously ill might be a valid reason, but people commit suicide for working too hard as well. And this is not only in Japan, where they tell about a real syndrome of overwork, but in Genoa, in Italy.
Mutatis mutandis, having, at sixty-four years of age, a twenty-six-year-old lover, in Italy, is something to boast of or nearly a rule, a” must[4]” without it in certain environments, one is considered less than nothing. In Japan, on the contrary, it may be such a great shame as to induce to suicide a director who had even been at the fore front against obsessional rituals of his country and Yakuza, the terrible Japanese mafia.
[1]” The one of the convent- Suor Rosa,the general advisor of the Order of the Divine Zeal’s Daughters had explained- is a community life and to face it requires a great affective maturity.She who can’t live together with others or has an individualist character isn’t suitable to take vows.”.At this point we have to wonder whether the individualist character was really the cause both of the missed vows and suicide.An aspiring nun, who commits suicide, just proves she isn’t suitable to religious life because she has violated one of the most important commandments” don’t kill”,, in this case herself.
[2] In an incest case with physical and sexual violence, where the girl committed suicide, her father, the offender, was indicted on suicide instigation charge besides rape.
[3] Even the charge of being male or better transsexual may be a suicide cause, if it is written female sex, housewife as job in her identity card. Expecting a baby at seventeen years of age may induce to an extended suicide in spite of her family, father included, had shown a total sympathy.
[4] An English word meaning that something must be done or have to be done to be“in”( that is integrated or fashonable)
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
15°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XV part)
16°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVI 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 XXI part)
See also:
1)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre First Part)
2)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Second part)
3)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Third Part)
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 (Le Mal de Vivre Eleventh Part)
12°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Twelfth Part)
13°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part)
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