It was a very hard book to write. I'm writing a book about medicine in the National Zoo. There's no evidence that they do. The issue of whether or not it's intentional or not is hard to prove in animals that can't communicate. It's hard to know.
Family members are often ashamed that someone killed themselves in their family.
Unfortunately, that's not an unusual reaction. We need to also get rid of the stigma against suicide. And however tempting it is to think about suicide in existential terms, the fact that clinical research and scientific research are quite consistent with showing that an overwhelming majority of suicides are related to treatable psychotic illness. David Bowman is a writer living in New York. All rights reserved.