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In the News (Fri 29 Aug 08)

  
 Critical Care | Full text | 'Round-table' ethical debate: is a suicide note an authoritative 'living will'?
The easy answer as to why a suicide note should not substitute for a living will is that any will, whether intended to take effect before or after death, serves as an instrument of human action, enforceable by the courts, when the actor is not capable of being heard.
The living will and the suicide note represent the light and the dark side, respectively, of the profound cultural ambivalence that exists in the USA between a belief in the sanctity of life, and the right to live life as freely as the constraints of a civilized society would permit.
Equating a suicide note with a living will is ethically dangerous, and is likely to lead the public into unhealthy perceptions as to the role of physicians in society.
ccforum.com /content/5/3/115   (7773 words)

  
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Suicide is the death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.
This is a case of suicide because Joe intends to die not to reveal secrets; that is, he views his death as a means to achieve a goal (keeping the secrets), and known means to intended ends are themselves intended.
NOTE: The argument, as it is, is unclear.
www.siue.edu /~evailat/el8.html   (1948 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Suicide note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.
The most common reasons against writing a suicide note are: Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.
His suicide letter is particularly noteworthy, as many claim it not to be a suicide note at all, but rather a letter to his fans explaining why he wished to leave the music industry and quit Nirvana
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Suicide-note   (1672 words)

  
 Kurt Cobain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cobain condemned the episode in the liner notes of the US release of the album Incesticide: "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly.' I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience.
Grant also believes that the apparent suicide note was actually a letter announcing his intent to leave Courtney Love, Seattle, and the music business.
Grant and a number of handwriting experts point out that the final lines of the note that most sound like a suicide note are written in a style that is jarringly different from the rest of the letter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Cobain   (4398 words)

  
 Suicide note -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A suicide note is a message left by someone who later attempts or commits (The act of killing yourself) suicide.
Research indicates that suicide notes have a profound effect on the (Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)) grief of those who read them.
Artistic self-expression - Notes can take the form of a (A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines) poem or (A prose narrative shorter than a novel) short story.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/su/suicide_note.htm   (650 words)

  
 Kurt cobain suicide note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Drowned herself at age 48, directing the brunt of her suicide note toward a...Kurt Cobain's body was found by an electrician visiting his home to install...
A suicide note is a message left bysomeone who later attempts or commits suicide.
The conspiracy theories allege that the suicide note was actually a letter he was...
www.homeslifestyle.com /kurt+cobain+suicide+note.html   (1095 words)

  
 Tips on Writing Suicide Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
You might think that suicide notes would be the most carefully crafted documents, however in many cases, they are written carelessly and hastily.
Note: if you are not actually committing suicide because you want to die but are just looking to get attention, do not bother reading this.
Suicide notes are not the place to rip into people, give away other's secrets, or confess crimes.
www.axe-s.com /tips   (1096 words)

  
 The Generic Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The suicide note is possibly one of the most important written works you will write in your life.
It is important to be sure your suicide note is properly formated and composed to ensure not only that you are taken seriously (that your sucicide is not dismissed as a joke), but also that people don't focus on your formatting and overlook why they are responsible for your death.
You should run the note all the way to the edge of the paper to demonstrate how close to the edge your life was.
www.genericweb.com /editions/suicide.html   (450 words)

  
 Better Dead Than Gay?
Depression, suicide ideation and attempt among a sample of gay and straight-identified males aged 18 to 24 by Jonathan Nicholas and John Howard.
Suicide was something, he says, that he applied himself to "with dedication...
The suicide note was sent to me by his mother and is reproduced with permission.
www.youth-suicide.com /gay-bisexual/news/deadly.htm   (2841 words)

  
 Contemplating Suicide?
For effective suicide prevention, you must change the choice to the pain of death or the pleasure of life.
Most people who contemplate committing suicide are ambivalent, undecided or another way to put it is that they're "teetering" between doing it and not doing it.
Instead this is based on adding healthy pleasure to their life NOW and showing them in no uncertain terms that suicide doesn't take away the pain, how it in fact multiplies the pain.
www.lollie.com /blue/suicide.html   (623 words)

  
 Constable's suicide note names DGP Malik - The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PANCHKULA: The suicide by Haryana police head constable Jaiveer Singh Rana in the 'malkhana' of the Sector 5 police station on Friday night has kicked off a major controversy with a suicide note found on his person holding Haryana police chief M S Malik and six others responsible for his death.
Besides DGP Malik, others named in the suicide note are assistant inspector general of police (welfare) M S Malik, Navdeep Singh Virk, a Haryana IPS officer posted with the Centre, DSP Jagwant Lamba, head constable Raj Pal, Ambala-based property dealer Hardeep Singh Jaggi and Yamunanagar SP's reader Mehar Singh.
"The suicide note has been sealed and sent to the forensic laboratory for matching," special magistrate Devender Kaushik, the inquiry officer who recovered the note from under the socks on Jaiveer's foot, said.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=228964   (578 words)

  
 CNN - School massacre: Possible suicide note - April 22, 1999
Two sources told CNN that the "final note," as they called it, was written by one or both of the two outcasts who killed 12 school mates and a teacher before taking their own lives on Tuesday.
According to sources, the note said, in essence, that Harris, 18, and Klebold, 17, acted alone, had no accomplices and wanted no one else to be blamed.
The sources said the note was not found in either of the suspects' homes, but they would not say where the note was found.
www.cnn.com /US/9904/22/school.shooting.06   (605 words)

  
 CBS News | Kurt Cobain: Not A Suicide? | April 6, 2004 12:05:52
The book also notes that there were no fingerprints on the gun, and because Cobain had such a high dose of heroin, he couldn’t have wiped off the gun.
That suicide note, this is a pastiche of things he had written before, I think.
He notes all that needs to be done is for Love to release the autopsy report to make everything clear.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/04/05/earlyshow/leisure/books/main610290.shtml   (1639 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We had found a suicide note while he was gone.
Around the time we found the gay porno pictures, he had attempted suicide by taking a bottle of Tylenol, which he vomited a few hours later.
In the note he wrote "I fear for my life" and "I fear on line." I believe this is a reference to the man flmailing him and other sexual predators that he encountered on line.
www.times10.org /kirkland22001.htm   (1535 words)

  
 Epitonic Message Board - Dimitri Shostakovich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
One hears the echo of the last note -- part of this BACH string -- trail off in the reverb of the hall in which it was recorded.
His only recourse for a suicide note that could possibly escape his country, something he could not do himself, was to bury it in music, and declare its meaning to be something the Russian government would cherish.
Though he wrote his suicide note to the world in 1960, he lived till 1975.
www.epitonic.com /message/message_board.jsp?MB.board_ref=8357   (1077 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Note tells of Enron suicide's pain and despair
The anguish of the former Enron vice-chairman who killed himself in January was revealed yesterday when the police released the contents of his suicide note.
He died from a single gunshot wound to the head and was found in his car, half a mile from his home in Sugar Land, an affluent suburb of Houston, Texas.
The brief intimate note was addressed to his wife Carol and provided no further clue to the collapse of the scandal-hit energy company.
www.guardian.co.uk /enron/story/0,11337,683127,00.html   (322 words)

  
 Cobain- Zero or Hero?
Even before a note of music was played, people were outraged that a known anti-semite was having his music performed in Israel.
Though Cobain made pains to be found as a suicide victim, he probably had no mind to tell anyone that he did the right thing.
Like Cobain, he despaired and decided on suicide, just as his band was on the point of conquering the USA after having conquering the UK.
www.furious.com /perfect/cobain.html   (1160 words)

  
 JS Online: Source: Suicide note describes killing of judge's family
Notes found in the car of Bart Ross, who killed himself after a traffic stop in West Allis last night, describe how he killed a federal judge's husband and mother in Chicago and listed additional people he blamed for ruining his life, including two Milwaukee judges.
The notes appear to suggest Ross acted alone in the Chicago murders, and was not planning to kill anyone else, a law enforcement source said.
The gun used in the suicide was not the weapon used in the murder of the judge's family.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/mar05/308313.asp   (541 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Enron exec's suicide note released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baxter, who resigned as vice chairman in May 2001, months before Enron collapsed, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Jan. 25.
The note was handwritten in all capital letters on a blank sheet of paper.
It turned aside arguments that the note might embarrass or invade the privacy of Baxter's family, "given the substantial public interest in the causes of Enron's failure and its far-reaching consequences."
www.usatoday.com /money/energy/enron/2002-04-11-suicide-note.htm   (335 words)

  
 Kurt Cobain's so called "suicide" note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The last four lines of the so called “suicide” note are written in a completely different style.
According to Grant, Rosemary Carroll also questioned the terminology of the note claiming that it was of the type used by Courtney, not Kurt, and that Courtney may have helped with the wording of this note.
If the note is viewed as a retirement note written long before April 1994 it begins to make more sense.
www.indefenceofkurtcobain.com /note.html   (601 words)

  
 Kurt's Suicide note...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Anyway, he left a note, it's more like a letter to the fucking editor.
I'm not gonna read you all the note 'cause it's none of the rest of your fucking business.
All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years since my first introduction to the shall we say, ethics involved with independence and embracement of your community, it's proven to be very true.
www.ludd.luth.se /misc/nirvana/misc/suicide.html   (556 words)

  
 Lover's suicide note links woman to slaying
Sharee P. Miller, 28, of Mt. Morris Township is charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Nov. 8 slaying of Bruce Miller, 48.
After the suicide, John Cassaday said he found the briefcase, which had three letters: one addressed to Cassaday's parents, one to his ex-wife and another to his son.
Attached to the briefcase was a note saying it should be opened in the presence of an attorney.
www.freep.com /news/mich/letter27_20000427.htm   (377 words)

  
 s m u g - mystery date
Oh, sure, it may be a little late to build character, per se - this is a suicide note, not a Bildungsroman, after all - but, if one were to harbor any hopes of entering the literary canon, a certain degree of character development is in order.
Certain rules which may not be immediately obvious, to the inexperienced suicide note writer.
The men and women in the marketing department of Little Brown cross their fingers, hoping that the actual suicide, if there is to be an actual suicide, is appropriately timed.
www.smug.com /9/mystery.html   (1347 words)

  
 Suicide Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Also it would be hell because of my sleeping disorders, which have ruined my life many times over (ARMY, Job Corps, Roommates) I am a loner by default and behind bars one is constantly being harassed by predators.
Suicide in prison is much too painful and ineffective.
And on that note i want to apologize to (Officer Jode Derickson[Hendrickson?]) for shooting him.
www.kranioclast.com /livecorpse/suicide.htm   (1019 words)

  
 famous suicide notes - dying words of famous people
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Accidental suicide as he shot himself with a blank-loaded pistol on the set of TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced a chunk of his skull into his brain; he died six days later.
Suicide note to her lover who left her.
www.corsinet.com /braincandy/dying3.html   (471 words)

  
 suicide note
While in some contexts suicide seems a legitimate, sometimes heroic or even romantic choice, in real life it is condemned and those who either commit or attempt suicide are perceived as either weak or cowards who flee rather than to face their problems.
If you want to, you can create your own suicide note and publish it here or read Kurt Cobain's or Eric Harris' supposed note or Romeo and Juliet's last words and Hamlet's famous contemplation on suicide according to William Shakespeare.
Read a short story that was found among his things and sketches for his own suicide note.
suez-cide.tripod.com   (481 words)

  
 ABC News: Report: Man Details Rage in Suicide Note   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CHICAGO Mar 23, 2005 — The man believed to have killed a federal judge's husband and mother typed out a suicide letter two weeks before the shootings and included a hit list of judges, lawyers and doctors, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Bart Ross, 57, an unemployed electrician, committed suicide March 9 in his van in a Milwaukee suburb.
In the van, police and federal agents found the letter in which he implicated himself in the Feb. 28 murders of Michael Lefkow, 64, the husband of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow, and the judge's mother, Donna Humphrey, 89.
abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=606911   (400 words)

  
 Suicide Note Says Judge In Chicago Was Target (washingtonpost.com)
Suicide Note Says Judge In Chicago Was Target (washingtonpost.com)
Suicide Note Says Judge In Chicago Was Target
but to shoot him," Bart A. Ross wrote in a suicide note received Thursday by a Chicago television station.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A23256-2005Mar10.html   (654 words)

  
 Bill's Story
Bill was so depressed and suicidal at one point that he spent some time in the hospital.
He didn't leave a suicide note, but he had said to me before he was hospitalized after the rally that he was just tired of coping.
Bill committed suicide at age 17, after being assaulted in a hate crime because he was bisexual.
www.youth-guard.org /gabi/Bills_Story.html   (3656 words)

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