Archivo etiqueta «Suicidio»
Par Chantal Peyer (LE TEMPS, 07/06/10):
Inconnue il y a deux semaines, la multinationale taïwanaise Foxconn Technology occupe aujourd’hui le haut de l’actualité. En effet, depuis le début de l’année douze employés, âgés de 18 à 24 ans, ont tenté de se suicider dans l’usine de Longhua, située dans la zone industrielle de Shenzen. Dix de ces ouvrières et ouvriers sont décédés, deux ont survécus avec des séquelles importantes.
Foxconn Technology est le plus important fabricant de composants électroniques du monde. Avec un revenu de près de 63 milliards de dollars, la firme se classait en 2009 au 103e rang … Seguir leyendo
By Paul Steinberg, a psychiatrist and a former director of the counseling and psychiatric service at Georgetown University (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/12/09):
The recent revelation that the families of service members who are suicides do not receive presidential condolence letters created a stir, evoking questions of fairness and raising concerns about a lack of compassion from our leaders.
Yet the issue is far more complicated than that. Indeed, there is nothing wrong with stigmatizing suicide while doing everything possible to de-stigmatize the help soldiers need in dealing with post-traumatic stress and suicidal thoughts.
The key question is to … Seguir leyendo
By Anna Motz, a consultant clinical and forensic psychologist (THE GUARDIAN, 15/11/09):
Last week’s suicide of the German goalkeeper Robert Enke revealed more than the terrible news of one man’s death, the cruelty of depression and the pressures on sportsmen to protect the public’s idealised view of them; it also exposed the ongoing shame and stigma of mental illness. For years he had been struggling with depression, kept secret from the public and his colleagues for fear of a vicious backlash that could, he apparently feared, raise questions about his capacity to care for his adopted baby girl and … Seguir leyendo
By Ilora Finlay. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff is an independent crossbench peer and Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Cardiff (THE TIMES, 24/09/09):
“I just want to die.” How often I have heard that phrase uttered as a way to ask “would I be better off dead?”, to seek reassurance and support, to express fears, or even just to open a conversation on how death will occur. I have seen people who were firm supporters of euthanasia when well who struggle to stay alive against all the odds when dying. And I have often heard people go … Seguir leyendo
Por Arcadi Espada (EL MUNDO, 17/02/07):
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Imagínate 3.381 muertes al año en España. Más muerte, desde luego, que la que resulta de asesinatos o accidentes laborales. Más, incluso, que las muertes por accidentes de tráfico. Ahora imagínate que ningún periódico español hablara de ello, y habrás comprendido que hablo de suicidas, concretamente del número de personas que se suicidaron en España en el año 2005. ¿Una cifra brutal? Desde luego. Y piensa si le añadiéramos los suicidas que eligen el método del accidente de tráfico. Pero hay otras más brutales, como las de Europa del Este, repúblicas bálticas, … Seguir leyendo
By Minette Marrin (THE TIMES, 10/09/06):
When Wolfgang Priklopil realised that the pretty girl he had kept captive for eight years had grown up and escaped, he threw himself under a train in Vienna. The wheels cut off his head. Difficult though it is to understand why a man should do something so terrible to a child, it is not at all difficult to understand why he should have done something so terrible to himself. It was the only thing to do.
From any point of view, he had no future. The girl was gone and the perverted obsessional world … Seguir leyendo
By Pauline Campbell. Pauline Campbell’s daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, died within HMP & YOI Styal (THE GUARDIAN, 04/05/06):
Ian Mayes rightly argues that the Press Complaints Commission’s code as it stands has been completely inadequate in relation to suicide (The readers’ editor on … another look at rules for reporting suicide, April 24). Ethical standards in journalism reached an all-time low when three newspapers recently published photographs of a woman jumping to her death from the fourth floor of a London hotel.Mayes refers to the recent, somewhat astonishing, decision of the PCC when it ruled that publication of the … Seguir leyendo
Libertad y muerte. Ignacio Sotelo es catedrático excedente de Sociología (EL PAIS, 29/10/04).