pleasantly and refreshingly evil (marginalia) wrote, @ 2003-10-20 23:55:00

Current mood:

exhausted

Morbid thoughts
There's been a rash of suicides at NYU recently. First, someone jumped from I think the tenth or eleventh floor of our library, which has a large atrium in the center. Shortly thereafter, someone else copied that bright idea, whereupon NYU promptly installed a lot of rather surly guards and started to install something or other to prevent people from jumping there. So someone jumped from their dorm window instead.

There was a veritable epidemic of suicides in Micronesia in the 80s, all started by one well-liked teenage boy who left a note and then choked himself with a noose. It had been unheard of, and literally became the cool thing to do. Not only did hundreds of other boys start killing themselves over every little thing, younger ones "practiced" for when they would surely one day do the same thing, because literally, everyone was doing it. Crazy.

Damn, I'm tired.

	agapequest 2003-10-22 00:24 (link)
	Yeah, there's so much copycatting, with school shootings and mass slayings, and suicides. It becomes a new way to be an individual like everyone else. (Reply to this) (Thread)