Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!jeff From: jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag) Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: Re: 'cause suicide is painless Message-ID: <587@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:48:51 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.587 Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:48:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 10:59:43 EDT References: <154@hal.UUCP> <2@cornell.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 24 [] While I know of no book on suicide methodology, I did come across an excellent book on human mortality in general, including suicide. The title is "Death is a Noun", and oddly enough it was in the juvenile nonfiction section, despite its being the best (only?) modern unemotional work on death I have ever come upon. It seems to be written for the "pre-adult" (= teen-aged) reader but definitely was in the category of things I *wished* I'd read as a teen-ager. It avoids the mystical junk too often associated with death (except for a dispassionate discussion of various societies' beliefs about death and afterlife, if any) and is neither patronizing nor trivial. If there is some interest I can get more information (author, publisher, date -- I think the last is mid-70's) about it. I found it in a library about 500 miles from here; I haven't seen it since but I can give somebody there a ring and have them send me the poop. Jeff Brown Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!jeff