Interesting Facts About Suicide

Interesting Facts About Suicide

The word “suicide” comes from two Latin roots, sui (“of oneself”) and sodium (“killing” or “slaying”).

Worldwide there are more deaths due to suicide than to accidents, homicides and war combined.

Over 90 percent of people who die by suicide had at least one psychiatric illness at the time of death. The most common diagnoses are drug and/or alcohol abuse. Depression is another reason.

As per a study, there are four male suicides for every female suicide, but three female attempts for each male attempt.

Seventy percent of youth who make a suicide attempt are frequent users of alcohol and/or drugs. (In U.S. Where the minimum drinking age was raised from 18 to 21, the suicide rate for 18-to-20 year olds actually decreased.)

Most suicidal people are undecided about living or dying, and they “gamble with death,” leaving it to others to save them. Very few suicidal people die by suicide without letting others know how he/she is feeling.

The first suicide note was thought to have been written by an Egyptian four thousand years ago. In his poems, he describes the pain of his existence and the attractions of death.

The first scientific study of suicide was Le Suicide has written by French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917).

Many cultures have prohibited a normal burial for people who committed suicide. A common practice in England until the early 19th century was to bury a suicidal person at night in a crossroad with a stake driven through the heart. In France, the suicide’s body was dragged through the streets and then hanged from the public gallows. In Prussia, early laws required the victim to be buried under the gallows.

Among famous figures who committed suicide: Sigmund Freud, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Brutus, Judas Iscariot, Hannibal, Nero, Virginia Wolf, Adolf Hitler, Ernest Hemmingway, Sylvia Plath, Vincent van Gogh, Jack London, Dylan Thomas, Judy Garland, Rudolph Hess, Pontius Pilate, Socrates, and possibly Tchaikovsky, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe.

OTHER INTERESTING FACTS

American troops are committing suicide in the largest numbers since records began in the 1980s. In 2008, 140 American soldiers committed suicide, breaking all previous suicide records in the military. Apparently there is a suicide epidemic in the U.S. Military.

Close to 10% of suicides take place in mental hospitals.
On November 18, 1978, leader of a religious group called the People’s Temple ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced juice. Approximately 900 people died, including nearly 300 children. The leader, Jim Jones (1931-1978), shot himself in the head.

Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco) is often regarded as the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. More than 1,200 people have jumped to their deaths from here. (One person who committed suicide by jumping from this Bridge left behind a note saying: “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one England’s Beachy Head at me on the way, I will not jump”.) Others such places are Japan’s Aokigahara Forest (a.k.a. Suicide forest) and England’s Beachy Head. In all these places there are posted signs urging potential victims to seek help.”
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day.

The Russian Girl With X-ray Eyes

The Russian Girl With X-ray Eyes

Russian X-ray girl thrills Japanese scientists with her remarkable gift! British and Japanese scientists acknowledged that the girl possesses an astounding ability to see through people.

A 17-year-old Russian girl, Natasha Demkina, from the city of Saransk, Russia has become known for her astounding X-ray ability to see people through and diagnose diseases. Scientists became interested in the Russian girl’s phenomenon: Natasha Demkina was invited to come to London and New York for scientific experiments. British researchers unanimously acknowledged Natasha’s remarkable gift, whereas American scientists hesitated to come to such a conclusion. They did not like that fact that the girl successfully diagnosed diseases with only four patients out of seven. Natasha Demkina has recently passed a similar test in Tokyo, where Japanese scientists confirmed the gift of the Russian X-ray girl.

”It takes me too much time to explain and specify everything that I can see. Sometimes I can see diseases in their early stages, when neither patients nor their doctors have any slightest suspicions about them. That is why we had problems with American scientists,” Natasha says.

During the test in Japan, Natasha was able to see that one of the patients had a prosthetic knee. Another patient had asymmetrically placed internal organs. Natasha easily diagnosed early stages of pregnancy and even a pathology of the fetus with a female patient. She diagnosed a rare undulating spinal curvature with a male patient. When Japanese doctors compared Natasha’s drawing of the curve with the X-ray photograph, they could see that the photo and the drawing were absolutely identical. When Natasha was finished with her seven patients, Japanese doctors could not help bursting into applause. However, it was only the first stage of the trial.

Natasha Demkina was offered to diagnose the disease of an old Rottweiler. The girl was afraid to approach the unmuzzled animal, but the doctor told her that she had to look at the dog’s paws. Five minutes later the girl pointed at the animal’s right back leg, in which she saw a prosthetic device.

The Japanese scientists did not believe the girl, when she told them that she could also see diseases on people’s photographs. When she was presented a small, passport-sized photo of a person, she quickly diagnosed liver cancer with the person in the picture.