Embodying Suicidal Emotions in England, 1700-1860
The ‘drooping of despondency’, Ella Sbaraini analyses a variety of source material to explore how the embodied nature of suicidal feelings in the past
Mike Shinoda’s Post Traumatic and the Other Side of Suicide
According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, there was an increase in suicides in the United States between 2000 and 2016 from 10.4 to 13.5 per 100,000 people, resulting in a 30% increase.
‘History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life’ reviewed by Dr Tom Widger
History of a suicide: My sister’s unfinished life by Jill Bialosky (Granta, 2015). History of a Suicide by Jill Bialosky is a moving and deeply personal account of her younger sister’s suicide and the author’s own
‘In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalising South India’ reviewed by Dr Tom Widger
‘In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalising South India’ by Jocelyn Lim Chua (University of California Press, 2014). Towards the end of 2014, the New York Times ran an article