“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.” PeopleMenFeelingsProblemAgeAbleForceWhiteMiddleEffectsHavensExampleHigherDrugSuicideRateAlcoholEtcGet BackArticlesImaginaryWhite ManMiddle AgesRecessionsDemographicsGallopingGreat Recession Author:Rick Moody
“We will not commit suicide because of pressure from the international community. A Palestinian state is not possible at the moment. I would rather fight and try to explain the situation in the Middle East to the world than to agree to steps that harm my country to satisfy the international community.” WorldTryingCountryStatesMomentsFightingCommunitySituationStepsMiddlePressureAgreeSuicideInternationalHarmEastCommitMiddle EastPalestinianInternational Community Author:Ayelet Shaked
“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.” MayDoeMomentsCharacterWould BeGuyBitsEnjoyPresidentMiddleFiguresGoes OnHeroToughSuicideInstanceBridgesHuntingReformersExpeditionsLarger Than LifeTough GuyCommitting SuicideJumpersErdoganBosphorus Author:Peter Kenyon
“Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some are thinking about suicide. They don't know if they will retain the beautiful house that they bought, or what will happen to the five family cars.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMomentsFeelingsHappensBeautifulHouseClassFiveMiddleCarLosingSuicideFortuneMiddle ClassFrightenedBourgeoisie Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.” MenProblemAgeSufferingCausesAttitudeMiddleSuicideMalesRateGenderDestructiveMassiveMiddle AgesMale Friendship Author:Stephen Marche
“The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.” ChildrenMiddleMediaTvsMessagesGloryResearchSuicideTerrorismEastDecadesInnocentMiddle EastPalestinianInstituteTextbooksDiseased Author:John Podhoretz
“I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.” KnowsHardSchoolMy OwnShareMiddleHigh SchoolFairsSuicideCommittedHard TimesGood FriendBest FriendPersonal ExperiencesBulliedMiddle SchoolFair ShareReally Good Friends Author:Brittany Snow
“A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.” PeopleFacesMiddleSuicideAddSupposed To BeHostOrangeCleaningVirginiaLunaticBeing CoolMiddle AgedWoolf Author:Nick Hornby
“in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing” PeopleIfsWayFirstsI CanRealSelfSometimesMomentsHandsWould BeRememberRoomsImagineMiddleFlowerEasierPaperSpringSuicideDancingRoseIf I CouldBeing RealSniffingSmall Hands Book:ViVa Source: ViVa
“As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.” SituationMiddleSuicideHospitalsAttemptingFutility Author:Steig Larsson
“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.” WayHeartWholeLinesMiddleBabySkinsSuicideWhole LifeSpotsGet BackMeant To BeClosestPulseWristsWere Meant To BeAcupuncture Book:Clown Girl: A Novel Source: Clown Girl: A Novel
“We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.” PeopleIfsMightGuyLiteraturePoorClassRichMiddleSuicideKillingBombsMiddle ClassApocalypsePoor People Author:Bruce Sterling
“In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”” LinesMiddleSkinsSuicideGet BackMeant To BePulseWristsWere Meant To BeAcupuncture Book:Clown Girl: A Novel Source: Clown Girl: A Novel
“For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.” GivingLittlesStillsChanceMiddleSecurityVictorySuicideWestCurrentsEastDesperateMiddle EastBrutalBloodySymbolicBin LadenPrestigeOsama Bin LadenGazaBombersSuicide Bombers Author:James Buchan