The Psychology of Death by Robert Kastenbaum

Author:Robert Kastenbaum [Kastenbaum, Robert]
Language: rus
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-11-21T16:01:54+00:00

A Will to Live and an Instinct to Die?

Knowing that it is our fate to die-and, what is worse, that it is our

fate to know that we will die-makes us furious at nature. -Evan Eisenberg, The Ecology of Eden

After flinging the corpse from the bridge, the enraged crowd peered over the edge to see the victim lying at the bottom of the river, with his ghastly face still exhibiting his fearful death agony. Now "wild and madly excited," the mob, which had spent its only live abolitionist, turned its fury on those in the street who were dead. "Curses were freely uttered against them, and kicks and blows inflicted upon them," reported a Maryland newsman.

-Thomas Goodrich, War to the Knife

I was hanging all right, but I wasn't dead. That's why I had the axe in my hand. Just in case. I chopped (my neck) best I could, but it wasn't good enough. I'll do better next time.

-Elderly woman describing her suicide attempt to the author

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