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Category: Suicide Awareness
Date : 20 Mar 2022
Created By : Michael Romero Read More
Author : Alexander Murray
"Suicide" and "the Middle Ages" sounds like a contradiction. Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? In this first volume of his trilogy, Alexander Murray takes the methodological question first, as a key to the testing of all other assumptions. After answering it, he shows that there were indeed suicides, of types and configurations astonishingly modern, if not in numbers per capita. "The violent against themselves" included rich and poor, townsmen and peasants, men and women, married and unmarried, their motives all too familiar: physical and mental illness, chronic or sudden poverty, arrest, disgrace, heartbreak in love, even what modern doctors might call depression. Following the sources as close to the events as they will lead, the author calls on these fugitives to give an account of themselves. In doing so, they also shed new light on features of their world we thought we all understood.
Category: Suicide Awareness
Date : 20 Mar 2022
Created By : Michael Romero Read More
Category: Mental Health Suicide Awareness
When we lost Anthony Bourdain, we lost an icon.
An icon not just in the media - but a physical icon for love, honesty, creativity, and passion - all things wonderful.
His taking of his own life was a shock to many - and a wake-up call, to most, of how hidden some peo
Date : 19 May 2019
Created By : Zoe Baber Read More
Category: Suicide Awareness
I've had a couple of people near and dear to my heart suffer from depression, who ultimately ended up taking their own lives. I personally ignored my feelings and pushed them aside but with time I was forced to confront them anyway. I didn't want to talk to others about my
Date : 28 May 2019
Created By : CB52 Read More