The explanation of suicide in humankind is the same as the explanation of the suicide of any particular human. Suicidology, the study of human suicide, and a psychological autopsy of a particular case are identical in their goals: to nibble at the puzzle of human self-destruction. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Category: suicide
Quote of the Day 12 Nov 2015
Suicide occurs when the psychache is deemed by that person to be unbearable. This means that suicide also has to do with different individual thresholds for enduring psychological pain. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 11 Nov 2015
Nietzsche said that “the thought of is a great consolation; by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night”. I can say that the topic of suicide has been a great preoccupation that has kept me up more nights than I care to remember. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
Quote of the Day 10 Nov 2015
With some few clear exceptions, I am against suicide commited by other people, but I reserve that option for myself. Edwin Shneidman, Suicide as Psychache
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