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Lucy Freeman (née Greenbaum, 1916–2004), [1] was an American journalist and author who published 78 books. [2] [3] She is best known for her articles on psychiatry and mental health for The New York Times, after being hired by the newspaper in 1940. Freeman pushed for other editors to cover these topics and she was central to the growth of ...
Clark was born in London as William Ronald Clark, the only child of bank cashier, later manager, (William) Ernest Clark and Ethel Kate (née Underdown). He was educated King's College School, at Wimbledon in southwest London; he withdrew from school before the age of eighteen "in full rebellion against his parents" and cut off contact with them, taking a publishing job in central London.
Bullied and profoundly depressed, he made several suicide attempts, including, as he wrote in his autobiography, by Russian roulette and by taking aspirin before going swimming in the school pool. In 1920, aged 16, in what was a radical step for the time, he was sent for psychoanalysis for six months in London, afterwards returning to school as ...
Marcus Gavius Apicius (before 40 AD), Roman socialite, gourmet and man of great wealth, poison [60] [61] Marshall Applewhite (1997), American leader of the Heaven's Gate religious cult, poisoned himself as part of the cult's mass suicide that year [62] Araki Yukio (1945), Japanese kamikaze pilot [63] Arbogast (394 AD), Roman general [64]
A.C. Grayling: Prominent British philosopher, author of The Good Book: A Humanist Bible [39] David Gross: American particle physicist and string theorist. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom; one of 21 Nobel Laureates who signed the Humanist ...
Warning: This story involves extensive discussion of suicide. When a writer took her own life on March 8, 2020, at age 39, her husband tweeted into the void: “My partner Molly Brodak passed away ...
It is common to depict suicide in literature. Suicide , the act of deliberately killing oneself, is a prominent action in many important works of literature. Authors use the suicide of a character to portray defiance, despair, love, or honor.
The award-winning journalist and author behind Generation Kill, Evan Wright, has died aged 59. His wife confirmed the news to Rolling Stone on Monday (15 July). The Los Angeles County Medical ...