Suicide Books

34. That is the number of poems that this book contains. Of that total, eight poems (24%) are about suicide. In five of the poems (15%) the authors question God asking Him, "Why have I been left alone on this God-forsaken earth?" 11 of the poems (32%) deal with violence, death, gang life or pain. Two of the poems (6%) question the corruption of our government asking, "Are we truly free?/A person told us what to believe/and we believed;" clearly a statement against President Bush and his policies that result in the deaths of thousands of children from low-income communities who have no say in their future. So why read this book given the list of depressing topics? The answer to this question is simple: Read this book to make a difference, read this book because you care. Given the statistics above, it is clear that certain youth in this country (mostly from low-income families) are in a great amount of pain and need to be healed. These children live in communities where violence, gangs and lack of a support structure make every second one in which they fight for survival. Up until now, these children have viewed their only options as poverty or suicide. I entitled this book "Suicide of Silence" after having read through the eight poems touching upon the topic of suicide. "Suicide of Silence" symbolizes a dream where children throughout all the ghettos learn to voice their opinions, thoughts and demands to a society that has ignored them. It represents a dream that children will begin to kill their silence, rather than themselves or each other. It is time that their voices be heard. It is time for change. That time is now. In the words of our ancestors, "P'lante, Siempre P'lante!"

We will not be defeated!

France was the epicentre of several historical facts during the sixties decade. The facts that derived in the well reminded May, 1968 exerted still more a deep restatement of many smart philosophers, compromised writers, historians and thinkers.

Among a great amount of invaluable and clever names like, Raymond Aaron, Jean Francois Revel, Giscard D' Estaing, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Roger Garaudy, Michel Debre and so many other not less relevant historical personalities, who analysed and expressed with absolute courage his most lucid opinions.

There was a marvellous and crude essay published in Le Monde by Michael Debre in the middle sixties whose title was "Opened letter to a youngster" in which he expressed the democracy gently prepared not only the bed for its own ideological enemies, but besides made available for them all the requisites and tools in order to be raped by thems.

"The suicide of the democracies" is one the most treasured and mindful essays ever written about the enormous fissures that use to nestle into this tolerant politic system of giving shelter even its most ruthless detractors, who supported on its well known tolerance, adequate and shape it through dim and mischievous intentions with the only propose of using it in order to satisfy his personal ambitions.

There's an admirable statement of the author worthy to be always reminded. "The democracy results are damaged into its basic principles, when a majority of the public opinion is persuaded that won't be able to influence in the government's politic."

In those uncertain times when the crisis of overpopulation, environment, energetic and ethical deficit seem to hover, surround, permeate and even affect more and more our quotidian contour, it's convenient to read or reread according the case, this admirable and lucid essay. It's a prominent and even actual text not only in Universities and important public spaces, but in our homes where our children - the men of tomorrow in a very brief span of two decades be conscious about not only the formal virtues of the democracy, but become aware the implicit risks it takes within.

Mari-Lou Rowley does not so much evoke experiences as she does the feelings that go with them by sending word-avalanches to tumble and explode around her readers, word-waterfalls that cascade through and past us, and (but only occasionally) word-droplets that gather in quiet, reflective pools. At the start of one poem, she shows us a wasp trapped in a spider's web, gradually coiling and uncoiling until it's free. The father of the narrator has, by contrast, been trapped, cocooned and doomed--and that image spoke to my apprehension early in my reading of these poems. I felt that I had wandered into places where it was emotionally dangerous for me to go, and that if I did not make my way with care, the author's ability to make mood and feeling out of words would pin me: I would struggle only at my peril. But this poet (and my friend) knows what she is doing. In the first section ("Suicide Psalms") she catches our imaginations with her sharp-edged, moving images of loss, abandonment and death, in the second ("Hermitage Poems") she takes us deep into the solitude of the writing act--and lets us hear with her the howls of the ghosts and wild animals that haunt that solitude--but in the third ("Survival Psalms") she provides a blessing and redemption--received by her and then conveyed to us, it seems--returning us safely to ground, to reality, to life and love.

You had me at check in time. Judith captured what so many women feel, but can't put it into words. She did and I couldn't stop reading. Thanks for the story. Loved it.

An indepth overview of tactics used to counter Allied dominance in sea & naval power in a forlorn hope to..postpone defeat. Short 1 page synopsis detail hopless missions like inevitable loss of world's largest battleship-Yamato, crew knew it was suicidal to try get to Okinawa..w/o aircover. Did 9/11/2001 terrorists may have read this, for..'inspiration'.

One wonders how a person could be so eager to die for his country. This book tells of a young Japanese man who is selected to be ride a one-man torpedo to his death and hopefully to the destruction of an enemy vessel. He underwent much training, survived horrific experiences, and never seemed to lose his wish to die for his country, even after the Emperor said Japan must surrender. I found this book a most interesting study of the type of mind which apparently animated many Japanese soldiers and sailors during World War Two. He should have read Wilfrid Owen: "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."

This is a very interesting story. It catches your interest and keeps you reading. I look forward to further books in this series.

A little over a year ago, I made a serious attempt on my life. I took 4 times the lethal dose of a drug. This book lists commonalities of people with suicidal tendencies and their causes. This book is very thorough, it talks about the anger(self or other) within the victim, the origins and expressions and defenses of hopelessness, and the perceptions and conceptions of suicidal thinking...to name a few things it discusses. One major thing that this book taught me(unlike any other book i've ever read), is not to diagnose or treat myself. This book contains 30 chapters, I thought i would atleast list the 8 parts of this book:

Part 1 Genesis of the suicide syndrome Part 2 Suicidal types Part 3 The murderous tyrant within Part 4 The ultimate weapon Part 5 The despair of being alive Part 6 The suicidal lifestyle Part 7 The suicidal crisis Part 8 Preventing suicide(which covers inappropriate interventions and alleviating the syndrome).( )

I highly recommend this book.

One of a kind chronical of the development of powerful tools for neuroscience research. Provides background on how and why the approach was first developed and much detail on agents available at the time book was written. Clearly written and illustrated. Particularly useful for those doing research in systems neuroscience.

I read this book, translated to the portuguese, here in Brazil.I'm an agronomist and I like to read books.
The subject of this book are the suicidal attacks against USA, by suicide in name of religion, during World War Two.
If today so many muslins are looking to die for Allah, at that times, much more people was looking to die for Hirohito.
If you believe that kamikazes were only in aircraft, this book will show you that, the vast majority of kamikazes, didn't use any aircraft in his suicidal missions.
Banzay charges and bomb-man were the core of kamikazes.
Even Submarine suicidal missions were did, but with limited sucess.
Exchanging Japan to Islam, Hirohito to Allah, shintoism to islamism and Yasukumi to islamic paradise; there's a repetition of history today.
Everybody must read, this concise and easy to read book.
History repeats ever decades and even centuries later.