The first one to consider life like a disease people can recover from by committing suicide, was Socrates: just before dying, as a suicide, the Greek philosopher begs his friend Critone not to forget to sacrifice a cock to Asclepio (Esculapio for the Romans) ,god of medicine. At present there are a lot of people who think in the same way and turning to suicide is so increasing as to assume the features of a real epidemic.

Committing suicide (an epidemic of suicides) concerns categories, like the one of youngsters, till now not involved in the phenomenon. The efforts from different experts to explain all this are so many as to cancel one another and above all are more directed to find out the”reasons” of a single case than examine the issue as a whole as far as a new epidemic of suicides concerns. The hypothesis of “the Intelligent Virus” asserts the geniuses are the ones who drive men to committing suicide with a mechanism which aims at stopping the abnormal growth of human population (overpopulation).