Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XIV Part) So as for very young people’s suicides, also for grown-ups’ a different explanation for every single case is sought, instead of examining the phenomenon in its epidemiological aspect. It’s as if the virus’s responsability in a flu epidemic were completely denied and from time to time the causes were found only in predisposing factors: young or old age, concomitant diseases, stress, cooling. Undoubtedly these factors are important to determine those who, during the flu, fall ill and don’t,but the virus is always the first cause.
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.
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