Tag: Suicide Prevention
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‘My bedside book is a revolver (…) and maybe one day, when I go to bed, instead of pressing the light switch, distracted, I make a mistake and pull the trigger’.
Jacques Rigaut, 30 December 1898 – 9 November 1929, was a French surrealist poet. His works frequently featured suicide. At the age of 30 he shot himself in the chest using a ruler, apparently as a site line to ensure the bullet struck his heart. His suicide inspired the book Will O’ the Wisp by…
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The Rumble and Groan of Mutual Gravity
Kak tucked her feet under the chair, hoping to conceal their bareness from the Sanibel Bean staff, and admired the pocketknife. Open, it was just under five inches long. The rounded brass ends were scalloped and combined with the curved green abalone shell casing to give the tool a pleasing oval shape. She found it…
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Did Cleopatra VII, last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt, die of a self-inflicted snakebite?
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Where to Now
Rudy stumbled to the curb of Terminal Access Road in Southwest Florida International Airport. Cars, taxis and shuttles brushed by, picking up and dropping off busy people. Commuters moving with purpose. Travelers in a hurry. Everyone but him. His thumb hovered over the ‘where to’ field in the Uber app on his phone. Where to?…
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‘That’s why Sexton went into therapy. She was terrified that she would kill her children. And she loved them deeply.’
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-20-vw-16928-story.html
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Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here
To her pleasure, Kak found she could stop thinking about what lay behind her. The images faded. Of Andy Rosse Lane and the couple’s shower at the Temple house where young women went to lay their lives upon the altar of financial security. Of the Temple family picture hanging over the fireplace with everyone on…
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The Last, Painful Days of Anthony Bourdain: ‘I hate my fans, too. I hate being famous. I hate my job.’
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl7ayvteD7AhXmGFkFHWpWD3MQFnoECAkQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F09%2F27%2Fdining%2Fanthony-bourdain-biography.html&usg=AOvVaw0nBu1UCnjR22X8tyjaAqsq
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The Prospect of Decency
Slick’s firing, though inevitable, was poorly timed. It was too soon. Blame needed to build over the next few days, culminating in retribution after the end of the fiscal year. Rudy had seen it playing out in the first week of October, after Fitch’s finance team closed the books. Slick, Joe and the Trinity would…
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The Trouble With the World is That It’s Always One Drink Behind
Kak didn’t have to look to know she’d overslept. She didn’t remember shutting off the alarm. That’s what happened when you tossed until an hour before it went off. She’d have to hurry now. Her bedroom door eased open in absolute silence. Kudos to the ‘Tween Waters Inn maintenance staff. At home she’d been forced…
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