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Suicide Suicidal


~ SUICIDAL  or
~ SUICIDE   id+ | SELF INFLICTED DEATH |
^u          directly or indirectly
  note taking willingly        sug> FORTUNE
       high risks              sug> CATALYST
  prompting FALL or ILL FATE   sug> CATASTROPHE
  lat  CAEDERE    = TO SLAY    sug> CADAVER
  sp   CAER         FALL       sug> CADUCARY
  lat  SUI          SELF       sug>SUITABLE
          CIDIUM    SLAYING    sug> HOMICIDE
  sp   SUICIDIO     SUICIDE    sug> SUITOR
  ukr  SAMO         SELF       sug> SOUL
           HUBSTVO  LOSS       sug> PERDITION
       SAMOHUBSTVO  SUICIDE    sug> CASUALTY
           HUBYTY   LOSE       sug> VICTIM
           HUBY     MUSHROOMS
  ply> | TO EAT UNSUITABLE MUSHROOMS IS
         TO ENGAGE IN SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR |
  biol> SOME CONTEND THAT SUICIDE
        CAN SUIT OR BE A SUITABLE
  DISSOLUTION or RESOLUTION OF LIFE
  LIFE CAN BECOME ABSURD            sug> PARADOX
  note ANIMALS FACING UNSUITABLE CONDITIONS
       MAY COMMIT SUICIDE
  note ONE FORM OF CHRONIC OR SUBTLE SUICIDE
       IS STERILITY
  med> SUICIDE AS A RESOLUTION OF DESPAIR
       IS AMONG THE MOST COMMON CAUSES OF DEATH
  according to CAMUS [#] elements related to
  SUICIDE include
  " TOTAL ABSENCE OF HOPE         sug> DESPAIR   GRIEF
    CONTINUAL REJECTION           sug> ALIEN  SOLITARY
    CONSCIOUS DISSATISFACTION "   sug> DISCONTENT
  also consider combination of
  THREAT TO SELF ESTEEM per
  feelings of low SELF WORTH or
  UNWORTHINESS
  ANGUISH
  DEPRESSION
  GUILT
  INFERIORITY
  SHAME
  CHRONIC FEAR
  leading to
  sp DESESPERADO = DESPAIR or WITHOUT HOPE
        ESPERA     WAIT
        ESPERANZA  HOPE or HOE
  ukr NADIA        HOPE from
      NA           FOR and
        DIA        EVENT  ACTION
  hx> Vincent van GOGH [#] FATALLY SHOT HIMSELF
      THE 27TH OF JULY 1890
  SOME SAY IN THE CHEST AND
  OTHERS IN THE GROIN
  AFTER A LONG HISTORY OF "MENTAL TROUBLES"
  INCLUDING CONVULSIONS
  THREE MONTH LATER
  VINCENT'S BROTHER THEO
  WHO ALSO SUFFERED FORM
  A SERIOUS MENTAL BREAKDOWN
  BOTH BROTHERS ARE INTERRED
  NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN AUVERS-SUR-OISE
  VINCENT ARRIVED TO AUVERS-SUR-OISE TWO MONTH
  EARLIER AND MET DR GAUCHET [#]
  DR GAUCHET INTRODUCED VINCENT TO ETCHING AND
  IN GRATITUDE VINCENT LEFT SEVERAL PORTRAITS
  OF GAUCHET
  DURING THE LAST 3 MONTH OF HIS LIVE
  VINCENT PRODUCED MANY PAINTINGS
  ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING FROM THIS PERIOD IS
  "FIELD WITH CROWS" CONSIDERED BY MANY TO
  DEMONSTRATE HIS DEEP DEPRESSION
  note that the EMPLOYERS OF THEO
       WHO WORKED FOR AN ART DEALERSHIP
  CALLED HIM
  "A KIND OF A FOOL ...
  HE HAS PILED UP ALL THESE ... (MODERN PAINTINGS) ...
  CLAUDE MONET (and RENOIR) ... THEY ARE HORRORS ..."
  note how the WIDOW OF THEO
       JOHANNA van GOGH-BONGER
  BECAME A CHAMPION PROMOTER OF THE WORKS BY
  VINCENT AND WITH TIME SHE PROSPERED
  MUCH OF HER LARGE COLLECTION WAS SOLD TO
  THE VINCENT VAN GOGH FOUNDATION AND
  IS EXHIBITED IN AMSTERDAM
  med>  PROPENSITY TOWARD SUICIDE
        MAY CLUSTER IN FAMILIES
  SUICIDE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEMISE DURING
  THE TEEN YEARS
  myth> see> HERACLES and many other
             HEROES COMMITTED SUICIDE
  often related to feelings of
  FUTILITY or ABSURDITY leading to
  DESPAIR which implies
  NO HOPE       sug> CATASTROPHE
  note THE ORDEAL OF see> SISYPHUS
  lit+ Albert CAMUS [#] WROTE
      "THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS" by
  Vintage Book New York, 1955
  seen by many as his
  CENTRAL WORK DEDICATED TO
  THE ANALYSIS OF THE WORTH OF LIFE or
  its ANTITHESIS or
  THE DISSOLUTION OF LIFE or SUICIDE
  CAMUS introduces his view of
  SISYPHUS with        sug> RESOLUTION
  " IT IS LEGITIMATE AND NECESSARY
  TO WONDER WHETHER LIFE HAS MEANING
  THEREFORE IT IS LEGITIMATE TO MEET
  THE PROBLEMS OF SUICIDE FACE TO FACE ...
  THERE IS BUT ONE
  TRULY SERIOUS PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM
  AND THAT IS SUICIDE
  WHETHER LIFE IS OR
  IS NOT WORTH LIVING
  AMOUNTS TO ANSWERING
  THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY ...
  I SEE MANY PEOPLE DIE BECAUSE       sug> HERO
  THEY JUDGE THAT LIFE IS
  NOT WORTH LIVING ...                sug> RISK
  I SEE OTHERS
  PARADOXICALLY GETTING KILLED FOR
  IDEAS AND ILLUSIONS
  THAT GIVE THEM A REASON FOR LIVING ...
  A REASON FOR LIVING IS ALSO
  AN EXCELLENT REASON FOR DYING ...
  KILLING YOURSELF AMOUNTS TO CONFESSING ...
  CONFESSION THAT "IS NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE" ...
  THE USELESSNESS OF SUFFERING ...
  A UNIVERSE DIVESTED OF ILLUSIONS ... "

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