[utahagen]

A significant percentage of suicides are “impulse suicides”. I don't think the DJs murdered this woman or could have foreseen that anyone would kill himself over their prank, so I'm not focusing on the DJs. I'm asserting just that this appears to have been an impulsive suicide by a woman who may well have been sane (albeit very sensitive). A fair number of middle class men in their twenties with no history of mental imbalance kill themselves after a bad fight with a girlfriend or after being fired. The suicide in the movie Dead Poets Society, however, made no sense because a character who clearly WAS sane shot himself because his father wouldn't let him be in a play. The character was NOT distraught and took time to decide to kill himself, meaning he was not impulsive. However, there are many suicides by upset, sane people, and this nurse may have been one of them.

[M1903A1]

“The suicide in the movie Dead Poets Society, however, made no sense because a character who clearly WAS sane shot himself because his father wouldn’t let him be in a play. The character was NOT distraught and took time to decide to kill himself, meaning he was not impulsive.”

It was more than that...he had been under the thumb of his father his whole life, and he had finally found what *he* wanted to do (go into theater). His father told him that, no, he was going to fulfill his father’s wishes and become a doctor...basically shoved his own will down his son’s throat. So I’d say there was a whole miasma of issues going on in the kid’s head...”distraught” isn’t always obvious.