The great social debate -really about subintentional deaths– is over the role of the larger society in contributing to poverty, social degradation, and hopelessness–conditions that are clearly about behaviors that bring death to far too many before they need have died. –Edwin Shneidman
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Quote of the day 22 Oct 2015
I have proposed the view that suicide is prevented by changing our perception of the situation, and by redefining what is unbearable. Perceiving that there are other possible ways of seeing things, redefining the impossible, bearing the unbearable, swallowing the undigestible bolus of shame or guilt. Edwin Shneidman
Quote of the Day 17 Oct 2015
The single most dangerous word in all of Suicidology is the four-letter word only. Edwin Shneidman The Suicidal Mind
Quote of the Day 16 Oct 2015
For one thing, it means that our best route to understanding suicide is not through the study of the structure of the brain, nor the study of social statistics, nor the study of mental diseases, but directly through the study of human emotions described in plain English, in the words of the suicidal person. Edwin Shneidman The Suicidal Mind
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