Title Page and Table of Contents 19. Whatever it is that triggers this kind of desperate action is at the root of the most widely misunderstood of our health and social problems.
Suicide is the most irrational of all individual actions.
Most of us realize this. Yet every 20 minutes in the United States someone takes his own life. Certainly it isn't that the trials and troubles are meted out more to the suicide-prone than to those with zest for life. No, it isn't the troubles. We all have our share of those.