Suicide
Related: death - depression - self - Suicide (band) - will
"Do it beautifully," says the heroine of Ibsen's 1890 play Hedda Gabler to Eilert Loevborg as she commands him to take his life.
In film: Soylent Green (1973)
In literature: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) - Madame Bovary (1857) - Leaving Las Vegas (1991)
Definition
Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending one's own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide [Jan 2006]Suicide in literature
Suicide has been used as a dramatic plot element in a number of literary works, such as Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Awakening, Romeo and Juliet, Death of a Salesman, and Groundhog Day. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, the protagonist inadvertently committed suicide when he stabbed a portrait of himself. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide [Jan 2006]
A Flux Suicide Kit - Ben Vautier
On view is Ben Vautier’s A Flux Suicide Kit which consists of a plastic box containing a shard of glass, a razor, a fishing hook, matches, an electrical plug, a pin, and a mysterious ball bearing. The piece includes graphic design by Maciunus in the form of an insert depicting a man’s head with explicative arrows marking pressure points like an accupuncturist’s chart. A Flux Suicide Kit alludes to the Vincent Van Gogh suicide and romantic angst-ridden artist myth. It subverts our expectation innocuousness and elicits a response that is both troubling and humorous (Vautier’s Lilliputian noose would only hang a field mouse). (...) --http://nyartsmagazine.com/60/openings.htmList of people who commited suicide
- Walter Benjamin, German philosopher
- Dalida, French singer
- Guy Debord, French artist and activist
- Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher
- Juzo Itami, Japanese director
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