MAKING SENSE OF THE GREAT SUICIDE DEBATE

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	MAKING SENSE OF THE GREAT SUICIDE DEBATE

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12-4-2008 5:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3dfe0654-92bc-4bce-8943-7ba70610557e/BF2CFAAE-9FDE-43E3-AF0A-ABDBE3AC94B0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">
Making Sense of the Great Suicide Debate
</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt"><P> AN expression of true love or raw hatred, of purest faith or mortal sin, of courageous loyalty or selfish cowardice: The act of <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about Suicides and Suicide Attempts." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/suicide-and-suicidal-behavior/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">suicide</A> has meant many things to many people through history, from the fifth-century Christian martyrs to the Samurais’ hara-kiri to more recent literary divas, Hemingway, Plath, Sexton.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt">But now the shadow of suicide has slipped into the corridors of modern medicine as a potential drug side effect, where it is creating a scientific debate as divisive and confounding as any religious clash.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/446EE047-0291-4768-8D91-08859BD25824" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt"><P>And the shadow is likely to deepen.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/D387088C-F87F-4E4F-9D74-9246B2C8BB2D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/weekinreview/10carey.html?scp=6&sq=&st=nyt"><P class="caption">
<STRONG>UNKNOWABLE</STRONG> The poet A. Alvarez called suicide “a closed world with its own irresistible logic.” 
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