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The Leonard Lopate Show / January 26, 2006 / Understanding Suicide

Understanding Suicide

Thursday, January 26, 2006

In Why People Die By Suicide, clinical psychologist Thomas Joiner explains why and how some people override their hard-wired instinct for self-preservation, and kill themselves. Also, author Alec Wilkinson, who wrote an article in the New Yorker in 1999 called Notes Left Behind: The Language of Suicide.

Music: Iris Soundtrack, Tracks 4, 3, and 2


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