Our contradictory reactions to the act of suicide speak to the conflicted hold it has on our imaginations: revulsion mixed with fascination, scorn leavened with pity. It is a cardinal sin — but change the packaging a little, and suicide assumes the guise of heroism or high passion, the stuff of literature and art.
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UPDATE: I am waiting on a phone call from the MedicAlert + Safe Return emergency line at 800-625-3780 to verify this, but it seems that Mr Talkofsky was found dead on Monday the 2nd. May he rest in peace and his family also have peace.
The New York City and Long Island chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association are seeking the public help in locating a missing Brooklyn man.
Irwin Talkofsky, age 78, of 1416 E. 100th Ave., Brooklyn was last seen May 31, the association said.
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“Is it possible that everything that one is, does, and experiences is a function of the brain? that one is who one is because of what one’s brain is? that becoming something different means changing the brain? And, if so, what are the implications of this? Do we lose something, or is the brain actually big enough, as Dickinson suggested, to contain everything? If so, what might we be able to do that has never before been possible? What are the risks, the gains, the new landscapes which would be opened to explore?”
Read more Brain & Behavior
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“Enemy soldiers stalk your village. You hide in a cellar with some neighbors and your baby, who starts to cry. Unless you keep his mouth covered, the soldiers will find you and kill everyone. Do you smother him to save yourself and your neighbors?”
Read more Psychology Today: Moral Combat: Emotion and Reason
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In this day and age we find ourselves managing families, careers, and other personal affairs that may seem overwhelming.
We may find it difficult to resolve matters reasonably due to the things we tell ourselves (negative self talk).
Some of us may even be ‘people pleasers’…
When our feelings, thoughts or aspirations are not reciprocated in what we deem to be of positive nature, we may tell ourselves things like:
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