The most striking episode is the suicide, live, of Bud Dwyer, an American politician, who, being shocked because of the charges of misappropriation of public money, shot himself in his mouth in front of telecameras. In this case I think we cannot absolutely speak of incitement to commit suicide, because the aspirant, after seeing the televised film, knows that, on shooting himself in his mouth, the eyes pop out of their sockets while a great quantity of blood comes out of the nose.
Without telecameras, one can organize himself with ” do it yourself” and by filming his own hanging the absolute suicide will is documented because, since the knot of the rope untied at the first attempt, the subject, a separated man of thirty-nine years of age from L’ Aquila with two children, tried again and died.
The same maker of the gesture often encourages suicide culture[1]:” I’ll do it within summer” a sixteen-year-old girl writes before shooting herself because haunted by some kilos plus. An old man of seventy-five years of age invites his relatives, in the farewell letter, not to despair but be glad of his choice to commit suicide.
It’s obvious for media, by reporting the details of the event, to encourage, unintentionlly, suicide culture. Suicides’farewell notes I would call testamentary are quite different from the latter.
An old woman, before jumping off, tells her sister not to pay car taxes, but, anyway, to inform ACI[2]. A registered letter to” Carabinieri “, where she asserts she wants to donate her organs, may precede suicide. It’s a pity only her corneas were used because of carbon monoxide.
Testamentary farewells point out the absolute suicide will, confirmed by the will, equally firm,to regularize what banally earthly links the suicide to life. Besides they confirm the attempt of doing an act(for example: to donate the organs) which can give a sense to their own life.
Progressively suicide becomes so common as to urge somebody to preparre real devices for the target.
It’s the case of Jack Kervokian, Doctor Death from Michigan, who committed about eighty assisted suicides. Finally assisted suicide becomes even prescriptible under the National Health Service in Oregon where, moreover, it has been legal since 1994.
The genetic hypothesis and the mechanism at negative retroaction are the only explanations for suicides without any apparent reason. For “motivated” suicides we saw there are so many explanations as to annul one another, while the only common datum subtending or anyway accompanying every single act is depression.On the other hand can we accept gratuitous or incredibly absurd explanations?
So as many people think death penalty isn’t acceptable even for the most atrocious crimes, can the destruction of our own life be “justified” by one of the so many already seen “reasons”[3]? The explanation may be only one: a pain, such a serious disease as to suggest death like a relief, a recovery.The only non-organic disease which can cause such a great pain is depression. Among all the hypotheses to explain depression the only valid one is the genetic hypothesis[4].
[1] A book, like Attilio Mazza’s: ” D’Annunzio sciamano” where the hypothesis the great poet might have committed suicide is advanced and the secrecy on the event was imposed by political reasons, can be published only in periods of “suicide culture”.
In Mazza’s book it is asserted that D’Annunzio would have revealed his intention to commit suicide, in some letters, till now unpublished, like the one he wrote to a friend:” Fiammetta, today I’m suffering from one of those fits of mortal melancholy so as to be scared of myself; since I’m predestined to commit suicide”.
[2] Automobile Club italiano
[3] Recently a Congressman in USA accused a medicine against acne, a very popular one among teenagers, to have caused the state of depression which induced his seventeen-year-old son to suicide. The deputy, a democrat from Michigan, asked the Food and Drug Administration( a government body involved in the health of consumers) to test the effects of the medicine”Roaccutane”. The deputy’s son committed suicide last May by shooting himself a rifle shot after the party for his diploma. On that evening the young man had decided to read the Bible during the party and had told his friends he wouldn’t have gone to university because his marks weren’t good enough and his parents hated him for this reason. His family says the young man had no reason to speak like that. His mother, after a long period of despair and questions about her son’s gesture, discovered on internet there are some forms of depression among the side effects of the medicine her son would take to fight acne. According to his family, FDA should make depressive effects more evident on the confections of “Roaccutane” and in the explanatory instructions. The attempt of an ideological covering, typically American, of the suicide gesture is evident.
[4] Unless we consider responsible any other factor, for example smoking, as it was stated by a study published on the monthly review of the American Paedriatics Academy. According to the researchers depression may be a direct consequence of smoking which should drive to such depressive conditions as to cause suicide risk. Yet researchers assert tobacco alone can’t be the only cause. But then would all young and very young people who committed suicide smoke? At this point why not the deafening music of discos or the waves of mobiles?
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
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 Ninth 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)
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)
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