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From: jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: 'cause suicide is painless
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:48:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:48:51 1985
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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
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