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    Suicide: The Final Curtain in the World of the Famous

    By Benita Estevez

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    Contents
    Introduction
    Peg Entwistle 1908 –1932
    Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
    Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961
    Tony Hancock 1924 – 1968
    Paul Williams 1939 – 1973
    Nick Drake 1948 – 1974
    Freddie Prinze 1954 – 1977
    Ian Curtis 1956 – 1980
    The Von Erich Family 1960 – 1993
    Kurt Cobain 1967 – 1994
    Michael Hutchence 1960 – 1997
    Justin Fashanu 1961 – 1998
    Tony Scott 1944 – 2012

    According to the UK charity, Samaritans, across the UK and Ireland there is, on average, one suicide every 85 minutes; and men are three times more likely to take their own lives than women. Reports suggest that suicides now account for more deaths than road traffic accidents. In the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60 per cent worldwide, totalling 1 million people dying each year across the globe as a result.
    Suicide is an uncomfortable, taboo subject and, for the non-suicidal among us, it is practically impossible to understand how a fellow human could ignore the basic survival instinct that is within each one of us. There is no pattern as to why people feel the need to take, or attempt to take, their own lives – each case is extremely complex and individual.
    Throughout history people from all walks of life have been affected by this tragic mental state, and sadly, many have succeeded in committing suicide before they received support that may have helped them turn a corner.
    On the flip side there is another, equally controversial type of suicide; sometimes an individual, who is mentally sound, wishes for the right to die in order to relieve suffering from a long-term, critical illness that is either painful or gives them no ‘quality’ of life. This is something that governments around the globe cannot agree on. Some people say that assisted suicide should be a humane choice available for people in severe pain with no perceived ‘quality’ of life; but others feel that murder is murder and that we should not take another person’s life, even if it is their wish.
    This book looks at writers, artists, musicians, sportspersons and stars of stage and screen who decided that suicide was their only option. It explores the events that caused these individuals to feel that their lives were no longer worth living.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRW Press
    Release dateOct 24, 2013
    ISBN9781909284210
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      It is poorly edited, even ending with an incomplete sentence and no punctuation. The writing is very dry and uninteresting.