Letters Remain

Tag: suicide

  • Suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge

    Having just finished watching The BridgeĀ (a 2006 documentary chronicling the stories of those who committed suicide at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge throughout 2004),Ā I came online in search of Jumpersā€”the article that inspired the film with its comprehensive look at suicide at the bridge. Both the documentary and the article pose some difficult questions but…

  • Suicide: The One Truly Serious Philosophical Problem

    A strangely inspiring article comes out of this philosophical look at suicideā€”that problem with which our species has been ‘gifted’. It feels like a call-to-action for your life. We must recognize that there are multiple forms of suicide. You can release your claim to life by means of a rope, a gun, a tall building,…

  • Suicide and Media Coverage

    The British Medical Journal has an article that I’ve spoken of numerous times lately (IRL), discussing how media coverage of suicides affects the rate of similar suicides. There is clear evidence that the media may affect method specific suicide rates. In Britain an excess of about 60 suicides by burning occurred in the 12 months…

  • Understanding and Reducing Suicide

    Discussing an article in The New York Times on understanding and reducing suicide rates, Mind Hacks’ Vaughan presents us with some other interesting research on the topic. If you want a flavour of really how simple the safety measures need to be to make a difference to suicide rate, research has found that putting pills…