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(Note: last thing she said was afternoon…one of the first things Jane asked Barbara when she was partially recovered was whether she had ever tried to commit suicide in the afternoon. [...]

(Part of the session grew out of our recent reactions to the televised newscasts, as well as what we’ve been reading lately, concerning the mass suicide in Guyana, the shooting of the mayor of San Francisco, problems with inflation, the Middle East —any of what seemed to be an infinite number of ills the species has created for itself. [...]

(Here Seth refers to the mass suicides in Guyana, mentioned in the last session. [...]

[...] 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

[...] Generally, underlined four times, suicides do not appreciate, for example, for whatever reasons, the quality of life, but set up demands as to what life should be. [...]

The would-be suicide’s problem is usually not one of suppressed rage or anger, it is instead the feeling that there is no room in his or her private life for further development, expression, or accomplishment, or that those very attributes are meaningless.

The case was startling, again, because of the obvious suicidal acts. [...]

[...] In the same way, the Jonestown suicides lead the society to face its inner problems.

Violence is basically an overwhelming surrender, and in all violence there is a great degree of suicidal emotion, the antithesis of creativity. [...]

(Pause.) Sometimes you think of suicide as ignominious and passive, but of war as aggressive and powerful. [...]

[...] There are people who have committed suicide because they established wealth as a condition of existence. [...]

[...] But no one sets the conditions, or pouts in a corner, or threatens suicide without courting severe difficulties. [...]

As mentioned earlier, those concepts can have a hand in the development of would-be suicides, particularly of a young age, for they seem to effectively block a future.

No child, no infant commits suicide. [...] The adult who commits suicide has still gained experience to some degree within your plane. [...]

[...] The boy was inclined toward suicide. [...]

[...] How can I die without becoming ill, which I abhor, or without having my death labeled a suicide before my children?

[...] A government study of those who had been held captive in the Far East during World War II and the Korean War, for instance, shows that 40% of all the deaths that took place in the group between 1945 and 1954 resulted from murder, suicide or accident.

[...] There have been suicides among them (as of July), and many have undergone at least temporary stress reactions since their release from prison.

[...] A man who kills with hatred will have his hatred to contend with, but he is not able to kill anyone who has not decided to die—and to die in a particular manner; that is, someone who wants his death blamed on another, who would not commit suicide, who would not choose a long illness—someone who is ready to die but does not want to deal with the circumstances, and wants indeed to be surprised by death.

[...] Usually these people are not suicides in conventional terms — although they may be.

[...] Both contain information about suicide, and were given after we heard about the self-inflicted death of a young friend of ours. [...]

[...] To do so would be psychological suicide.

[...] You may, for example, sneeze or not sneeze, cough or not cough, walk to the window or the door, scratch your elbow, save a child from drowning, learn a lesson, commit suicide, harm another, or turn your cheek.

Dictation: (Pause, one of many.) Now: To a certain extent (underlined), epidemics are the result of a mass suicide phenomenon on the parts of those involved. [...]

An animal can indeed commit suicide. [...]

[...] Later he felt that she would either commit suicide or kill them both while he slept, and he feared the night. [...]