November of the Soul: The Enigma of SuicideWritten with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects of suicide -- its cultural history, the latest biological and psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on suicide's survivors. Presented with deep compassion and humanity, November of the Soul is an invaluable contribution not only to our understanding of suicide but also of the human condition. |
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... five, remains a raw and contentious subject, as evidenced in the collective national hysteria occa- sioned by the case of Terri Schiavo in the spring of 2005. Indeed, as this book went to press, the Supreme Court was due to hear an ...
... five, remains a raw and contentious subject, as evidenced in the collective national hysteria occa- sioned by the case of Terri Schiavo in the spring of 2005. Indeed, as this book went to press, the Supreme Court was due to hear an ...
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... five ; the alcoholism that has frequently blighted my family tree ; the pain and confusion I felt in college when I learned that a class- mate had jumped to his death from a dormitory window . And although I have never thought seriously ...
... five ; the alcoholism that has frequently blighted my family tree ; the pain and confusion I felt in college when I learned that a class- mate had jumped to his death from a dormitory window . And although I have never thought seriously ...
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... five and six); Justin's first birthday; Justin's first step; Justin's second Christmas; Justin standing on a chair ( Pausing for a souvenir photo atop Mt. Everest—I did it all myself ). From the beginning , Justin Spoonhour was treated ...
... five and six); Justin's first birthday; Justin's first step; Justin's second Christmas; Justin standing on a chair ( Pausing for a souvenir photo atop Mt. Everest—I did it all myself ). From the beginning , Justin Spoonhour was treated ...
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... anarchic air . Four or five cats had the run of the house , dishes often went unwashed , and tilted pictures were likely to remain that way . " Housekeeping , " admits Anne, “was not a high priority.” Giles and Anne 16 GEORGE HOWE COLT.
... anarchic air . Four or five cats had the run of the house , dishes often went unwashed , and tilted pictures were likely to remain that way . " Housekeeping , " admits Anne, “was not a high priority.” Giles and Anne 16 GEORGE HOWE COLT.
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... five. His library overran the shelves into boxes on the floor; whenever his parents couldn't find one of their own books, they knew where to look. On one wall was a huge Confederate flag an uncle had given him. On another wall was an ...
... five. His library overran the shelves into boxes on the floor; whenever his parents couldn't find one of their own books, they knew where to look. On one wall was a huge Confederate flag an uncle had given him. On another wall was an ...
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Popular passages
Page 240 - words from A Tale of Two Cities: "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Page 240 - note: I have long determined that the best thing I could do was to put an end to the existence of a being whose birth was unfortunate and whose life has only been a series of pains to those persons who have hurt their
Page 530 - Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.
Page 160 - subtitled: A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Self-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise. Wherein The Nature, and the extent of all those Lowes, which
Page 48 - If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind,
Page 223 - Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do.
Page 225 - Good creatures, do you love your lives And have you ears for sense? Here is a knife like other knives, That cost me eighteen pence. I need but stick it in my heart And down will come the sky, And earth's foundations will depart And all you folk will die.
Page 159 - his hand did quake / And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene, / And troubled bloud through his pale face was scene / To come, and goe with tydings from the hart, / As it a running messenger had beene.
Page 157 - Thou, constrained by no limits, in accordance with thine own free will, in whose hand We have placed thee, shalt ordain for thyself the limits of thy nature
Page 189 - What is now holding sway in the super-ego is, as it were, a pure culture of the death instinct, and in fact it often enough succeeds in driving the ego into death.
References to this book
Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide DeQuincy Lezine,David Brent Limited preview - 2008 |