Re: suicide


Subject: Re: suicide
From: Louise Z. Brooks (invertedforest@angelfire.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 18:41:31 EST


Surely the martyrdom of early saints such as St Perpetua and St Felicitas could be viewed in the same light as Seymour's ecstatic exit. In the record of their sacrifice to the lions by the Romans it is recorded that they walked out into the arena wholly jubilant and entirely convinced that they would soon be united with God, one woman even delivering her own baby a month early so she would not miss out on being sacrificed with her fellow Christians. To a late C20th - early C21st audience this rings rather horridly of cult obsessionism.

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Louise Z. Brooks
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:58:04 Scottie Bowman wrote: > > The temptation in jumping off the temple was not, > surely, about suicide but about arrogantly presuming > upon God - to send his rescuing angels. > > To some of us, the voluntary embracing of an avoidable > death for whatever reason - even the salvation of mankind > - has a distinctly suicidal feel to it. > > It always seemed to mt that the hint was there - that > Seymour's death was a martyrdom, a martyrdom evoked > to confirm him retrospectively as a kind of messiah. > > Scottie B. > >- >* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message >* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH >

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