Sunday, December 13, 2020

Trying To Understand What Drives People to Suicide

The New York Times Sunday Review recently had a long article by Jennifer Senior titled, "Happiness Won't Save You," about of Phil Brickman, a man who’d done one of psychology’s foundational studies about happiness. 

In addition to being about the life and suicide of Brickman, the article had much to say generally about about suicide and its effects on us that are left behind. It prompted the following letter to the editor in today's NYT. It breaks my heart:


 

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