Subject: Re: suicide
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 12:18:14 EST
'... I think Scottie's reduction of possible motives
for suicide to neurosis is an oversimplification ...'
I said nothing about the *motives* for suicide;
nor anything about neurosis.
I suggested that the STATE OF MIND IN WHICH
THE ACT BECOMES POSSIBLE must be close to
the *psychotic*.
Like Robbie, I suspect the instinct for self-preservation
is the most imperative. Certainly on the very few
occasions when I knew my own life was about to end
I would have done ANYTHING to postpone the event.
Considerations of belief, prospects for the future, unhappiness,
responsibilities to loved ones, & so on & so on - all become
supremely irrelevant in the face of that biological demand.
This seems to have been the universal response of any of
my acquaintances with a similar experience. Something
very basic indeed in one's mental processes must be suspended
before one pulls the trigger - or its equivalent.
Scottie B.
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