Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre- Fifth Part) DUM EA ROMANI PARANT CONSULTANQUE IAM SAGUNTUM SUMMA VI OPPUGNABATUR – Tito Livio Histories XXI , 7 , 1 [1] While experts are discussing on youth unrest, or adult one, people continue committing suicide. I’m saying so because suicide will is such that, when the first attempt fails, many more recur, one after the other. Attempts recur more times in the space of few hours till the aim is reached. After surviving a jump from his balcony, Gianluca, 23 years old, threw himself again from the same point and finally succeeded in his purpose.
Suicides Le Mal de Vivre Fourth Part Back again to our theses we have to prove, by examinig the features of the phenomenon, that suicide, besides having a genetic basis, is one of the factors of population regulation. Starting from the numbers of suicides, we notice that the epidemic feature is all the more dramatic, if to the so-called official suicides, we add the dramatic increase of the so-called” masked suicides”.
Suicides ( Le Mal de Vivre-Third Part) Then in front of the spreading of suicide phenomenon involving an increasing number of persons of all ages and of every social and working condition, it’s, all the same, limited thinking to solve every single case, even less letting people at risk simply speak.
Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Second Part) New categories, till now never represented, enter the statistics, an example may be the one of Parisian “flick ” (policemen ) where the phenomenon which at first was insignificant, spread out enormously. At a certain point even Police Unions intervened, but the result was that when a French policeman, insted of committing suicide, exterminated his mother, father and two sisters, he couldn’t say why.
Suicides (Le Mal de vivre First Part) And already the lower part of his stomach was now getting cold, when he( Socrates ) unveiled his face which had already been covered and said again these words( the last ones he ha pronounced):”Oh, Critone, we owe Asclepius a cock; give him it,and try not to forget it”[1] ( Plato, Phaedo LXVI )
