Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide (edit title)

Cora B edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Friday, November 20 2009.

• Added: An inquiry into suicide especially for folks who've never thought about taking their own lives.

Cora B edited the table of contents of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Friday, November 20 2009.

• 1. Buried Above Ground
  2. Just Hope Has Gone
  3. Pangs of Nature, Taints of Blood
  4. Building Against Death

Cora B edited the quotations of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Friday, November 20 2009.

• Added a quotation: “What we do not know kills. Yet we know a mastodonic amount about suicide.”

Shelfari edited the description of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Sunday, August 2 2009.

• From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Kay R. Jamison: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Thursday, July 16 2009.

• NO ONE KNOWS who the first was to slash his throat with a piece of flint, take a handful of poison berries, or intentionally drop his spear to the ground in battle.