SUICIDE TANGO – Tripsy South

Only THE DEAD Are Experts On the Subject of Suicide

CNN posted an article about how suicide rates have risen by 33% in nearly twenty years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also published similar results. “For some health experts, the rise in suicide comes as no surprise.”

My gawd. When something or some event does not surprise you, then you must have had some prior knowledge of it; in this case, the increase in suicides. Worse, you did nothing about it. Continue reading Only THE DEAD Are Experts On the Subject of Suicide

Excerpt from Suicide Tango: Why Do You Want To Kill Yourself?

The following is the introduction to Chapter One by Dr. Jon Moore:

Being a textbook practitioner of the anal arts—please read: compulsively obsessive and obsessively compulsive—I often puzzle over the impossibly complex neural processes that lead a human being even to consider taking her own life. After all, they and their parents, for most people, have already invested at least fifteen years in that life, although for the average suicide—excuse me, suicidal person—this may not have been a particularly pleasant experience.

Villanelle: Coolest Psychobitch in the Stream

Over the past 75 or so years, movie and tv psychos have been so boringly Hollywood-stereotypical, cartoonish even: Raven (This Gun for Hire) Don Logan (Sexy Beast), Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction), Norman Bates (Psycho), among others. The writers of these clumsy characters were clueless about what makes a true psycho, let alone one who murders for cash.