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Category: Suicide Awareness
Date : 20 Mar 2022
Created By : Michael Romero Read More
Author : Georges Minois
In this compact and illuminating history, Georges Minois examines how a culture's attitudes about suicide reflect its larger beliefs and values―attitudes toward life and death, duty and honor, pain and pleasure. Minois begins his survey with classical Greece and Rome, where suicide was acceptable―even heroic―under some circumstances. With the rise of Christianity, however, suicide was unequivocally condemned as self-murder and an insult to God. With the Renaissance and its renewed interest in classical culture, suicide reemerged as a philosophical issue. Minois finds examples of changing attitudes in key Renaissance texts by Bacon, Montaigne, Sidney, Donne, and Shakespeare.
By 1700, the term suicide had replaced self-murder and the subject began to interest the emerging scientific disciplines. Minois follows the ongoing evaluation of suicide through the Enlightenment and the Romantic periods, and he examines attitudes that emerge in nineteenth- and twentieth-century science, law, philosophy, and literature. Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history―the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.
Category: Suicide Awareness
Date : 20 Mar 2022
Created By : Michael Romero Read More
Category: Mental Health Suicide Awareness
Saw this article and thought it was helpful.. Ciji loved working out and tried so hard to use excersize as a coping skill..
Category: Mental Health Suicide Awareness
Hangover actor Brody Stevens committed suicide on February 22, 2019. Brody had been battling with depression for years now. Just because people might seem successful and happy, you never truly know what's really going on with them until you check up on them. People don't re
Date : 31 May 2019
Created By : Dom Russo Read More