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To: Malone LaVeigh

It’s a very odd thing psychologically to commit suicide when you aren’t really young, really old. or really sick.

I watched the first 20 minutes of the first episode of a hit TV show (Desperate Housewives) a few years back and was stunned. I haven’t watched it again because I found it so disturbing. The narrator of the show is having just a normal day and then she kills herself on a whim.

A very odd occurance and one that may portent a deep psychosis that dwells within our cultural subconscious. I personally think that we have sold each other such high expectations of what our lives should be, that there are many who reach middle-age, realize they don’t have the time or path to reach those expectations and become despondant.

This spike is troubling and I will want to see more analysis of the data.


12 posted on 10/21/2008 6:26:18 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
A very odd occurance ...

It's fiction.

... and one that may portent a deep psychosis that dwells within our cultural subconscious.

Or at least the subconscious of people who write and produce TV smut.

15 posted on 10/21/2008 6:30:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (After 5:00 p.m., slip brains through slot in door.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
I watched the first 20 minutes of the first episode of a hit TV show (Desperate Housewives) a few years back and was stunned. I haven’t watched it again because I found it so disturbing. The narrator of the show is having just a normal day and then she kills herself on a whim.

Sometimes, Louis, dead is bettah.


30 posted on 10/21/2008 8:52:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Secondhand Aztlan Smoke causes drug addiction obesity in global warming cancer immigrant terrorists.)
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