Blue Byline » nicholas kristof http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Deconstructing the taboo of suicide http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/04/17/deconstructing-the-taboo-of-suicide/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/04/17/deconstructing-the-taboo-of-suicide/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:19:10 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1650

In the vast repertoire of human actions there are few as disturbing as suicide. As such it is too often viewed as a stigma, a crime against the community as much as a crime against oneself.

If we were to be honest, the act of self-destruction is repellant to us for two basic reasons: It is a violation of both our primal sense of self-preservation and the moral principles which mold our personal and religious views. In the past, people who committed suicide were considered damned for eternity and unworthy of a Christian burial. In the present, conversation on this …

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