On examining the various systems used for suicide, there aren’t further discoveries as to the hypotheses already put forward. The means used are the ones which are more easily available: train, pistol, rifle, void, exhaust gas, river, sea, well, muriatic acid and poisons( above all when they are available), electricity, cut of veins, fire, oven, hanging, strangling, choking.
Besides the choice of the easiest means, premeditation and an absolute suicide will strike again.Before hanging himself one ties up his hands and feet being afraid of the survival instict. If one intends to choke, two bags, both of them tightly tied around his neck, are used. Being lacking in poison sulphuric acid is even drawn out of the car battery. Also a moped is all right for exhaust gases, a cutter may be borrowed to cut veins.
If instead of a cutter, one borrows a pistol, in a train compartment, no wonder whether there is no answer. But all this doesn’t stop the aspiring suicide who commits suicide by plopping between two carriages.
The inventiveness in the choice of the means[1] is surprising: hiring some killers to murder somebody is, unfortunately, frequent enough, but what about a person who pays someone to be killed?[2]
Always about suicide as a mechanism at genetic-retroaction for the regulation of population, when, after jumping off, an old man falls directly into a dumpster, the metaphorical meaning is evident.
Places and times of suicide confirm the already asserted theses: it’s striking how many people choose a hospital to kill themselves and they aren’t only subjects already hospitalized, but persons who go to hospital determined to commit suicide.
If depression is a disease and suicide the treatment, a hospital may be the right place. Doctor Death’s (Jack Kervorkian) last action belongs to suicide culture by pretending to socialize the gestu
In a parish in the suburbs of Detroit, at the foot of the altar, he gave a lethal dose of carbon monoxide to a seventy-two-year- old woman affected by breast cancer in an advanced stage. The woman would express the will to die in a church[3] with the comfort of religion.
Also times often confirm suicide hypothesis as the only escape to a no more acceptable pain, above all when holiday times are chosen to commit suicide.We know that for those who suffer from depression the most difficult days to be tolerated are just the ones when all the others celebrate. On Christmas Eve and on New Year’s Eve suicides increase significantly.
As a final support of my thesis on depression as the (genetic) base of suicide is the motivation for which the Roman Catholic Church, for some years, has allowed religious funerals to suicides. As Joaquin Navarro explained to those journalists who were surprised of the fact, the 1983 code of canon law modified the regulations of the previous legislation of 1917 which prohibited burial and public funerals to a suicide. The motivation – the dirctor of the press-room of the Holy See asserted – doesn’t depend on the fact that suicide isn’t considered a very serious sin any longer, but because, in all these years a greater knowledge of human mind was acquired”. Navarro, with a degree in psychiatry, said:” We could understand, how certain diseases, like some forms of depression, deprive a human being of his freedom of consent. In such cases, suicide cannot be ascribable to a conscious choice”[5].
[1] Being convinced to be haunted by demons, a man from Rome wanders all around the city for hours, trying to shake them off, takes a train for Milan. When he gets to the central station, he realizes those “monsters” are still with him. He phones his friends and relatives, telling them he intends to commit suicide. Finally he climbs up a carriage in a depot of trains and catches high voltage cables with his hands. The twenty-six-year-old young man dies with an electtric shock of thousands volts.
[2] In Reggio Emilia (Italy), one of the industrial capitals of rich Emilia, a worker, tired of life, didn’t find anything better than pay two Egyptian immigrants so that they would undertake to fire a shot in his head. The reason of all this was the end of a love affair with a young Chilean woman owing to whom he had been attacked with bottle strokes. To overcome the fear of what he had ordered the killers he himself had wrapped his head in a blanket. The price of the contract 40 milion, an advance on severance pay. Maybe the aspiring suicide thought the best way to make use of his severance pay were the one to be killed like a Roman patrician by his own slaves: in ancient Rome the reward for the slave who accepted to kill his master, on request by the latter, was freedom.
[3] Also in Italy a church may be chosen as the spot where to commit suicide. At St.Peter’s a sixty-four-year-old retired man fired himself a shot in his mouth in front of an Australian tourist’s eyes and telecamera. Because of the suicide it was necessary to open the Basilica again with a ceremony which provides the reading of a ritual formula and a special blessing. According to catholic tradition blood shed inside the holy enclosure annuls consecration automatically.
[4] If on Christmas Eve, in a bath tub of a room in a hotel, on the day after the thirtieth birthday, death cannot be got by cutting veins, there is nothing to do but leave the tub and naked, just one is, jumping off from the second floor.
[5] Navarro’s explanation to journalists happened on the occasion of the funerals, which took place in the Vatican parish of St.Anna, of the homicide-suicide Cedric Tornay. A nice funeral ended an event that must have embarassed Vatican a lot. Tornay, a Swiss guard, before committing suicide, killed his superior and the wife of the latter. People spoke also of mobbing, but it is never known the kind of relationships there were among the three of them.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
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)
18°) (Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVIII part)
Ferdinando Gargiulo offers you a new perspective on why new viral epidemics, assaults, infanticides, suicide epidemics and even environmental catastrophes. Always engaged in his research decides to create a blog to offer his readers content of high value.