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University Dally Kansan Thursday, March 4, 1965
Death Causes Traced By Expert on Suicides
The person who attempts suicide usually wants to live and to die at the same time, according to Dr Edwin S. Shneidman, project director of the Suicide Prevention Center (SPC) in Los Angeles.
Few suicides are insane, Shneidman told a psychology colloquium yesterday. But all who try suicide are disturbed with some acute emotional disorder, and in the process of committing suicide they are simultaneously attracted to and repulsed by death.
Raymond C. Jackson has received a third renewal grant from the National Science Foundation for study on the evolution of this species. The $28,600 allocation for three years will enable him to finish the phylogenetic and experimental studies leading to a taxonomic treatment.
An example of this ambivalence, Shneidman said, is "like a man seeing his mother-in-law go over the
A KU professor of botany is allergic to Haplopappus, but he hasn't let it deter him from seven years research on this member of the Sunflower family.
Prof. Jackson has overcome the major occupational hazard of his allergy to Haplopappus by wearing face masks for field work in the Southwest and Mexico and for experimental studies in the KU greenhouse.
Allergy Doesn't Stop Research
cliff in his new Cadillac." The same thing is seen in suicide, when a person cuts his wrist and then cries for help.
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Asian student demonstrators shouting "Down with the murderer Johnson" broke through barricades and a human wall of Soviet policemen today and attacked the U.S. Embassy.
"There are three motivations of death." Shneidman said. "They are intentional, when one has a conscious role in his demise; sub-intentional, where one flirts with death and hastens his demise; un-intentional, where one has no conscious role in the subsequent demise."
"We consider those we help as patients, not clients," Shneidman said. "We have interviews with them, not conversations. There are no charges for diagnostic and evaluation services."
The majority of suicidal deaths come from sub-intentional motivations, he said. This involves living dangerously on the brink of death; being excessive and using alcohol, drugs and tobacco unwisely.
"Our purpose is to save lives," he said. "We try through various means to infuse hope into individuals and not only to save lives at the times of the suicide attempts, but to prevent them in the first place.
The SPC is presently supported by a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service.
Students Protest U.S.
Today's attack was in protest against U.S. bombing attacks on military targets in Communist North Viet Nam.
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