Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part) In the years of youth protest rebellion was rarely expressed with suicides, very often with acts of aggressiveness. On 9th 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.
Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Twelfth Part) At this point suicide pacts and mass suicides linked to varied and mysterious sects prove more understandable. The last case took place in California and concerns 39 followers of the Higher Source. A mixture of technology and medioeval beliefs revised from a modern viewpoint is peculiar to this sect. The followers, all computer experts, work hard, earn well, don’t drink, don’t smoke and what is important, practise chastity, therefore they don’t reproduce.
Suicides (Le Mal De Vivre Eleventh Part) It’s immediate the analogy with the suicide phenomenon in still surviving primitive tribes, with the suicide epidemic among Parisian “flicks”(policemen) and with the suicide choice in some animals.
Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Tenth Part) In Angle-Saxon countries, above all in America, suicide pact has a more complex connotation. The most frequent is the one of a suicide pact among adolescents.
Suicides ( Le Mal de Vivre Ninth Part) When the extended suicide of men involves their children the “cause” is very often the separation from their wife. A person, particularly selfish and devoid of moral sense and therefore not very prone to depression, can easily survive being left by his wife only by killing her or his children as a punishment without committing suicide, so the true cause of an extended suicide isn’t abandonment but a latent depression.
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