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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent well-written overview of suicide
To the previous reviewer, you can't rate a book by it's cover! Did you even read this book? Or did you give it a low rating because you don't like that Kurt Cobain is on the cover? This is a really thorough yet concise overview of a subject. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about suicide.
Published on September 14, 2001
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not for families of suicide victims
This book may be useful from a clinical perspective, but I definitely don't recommend it if you are someone who is trying to "make sense" of a loved one's suicide. At one point the author actually says something like, "a sensitive and astute person can recognize the signs of suicide and prevent it." I thought this was a very insenstive statement, as it seems to place...
Published 8 months ago by catcrocodile
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent well-written overview of suicide,
By A Customer
This review is from: Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look At Why People Kill Themselves (Paperback)
To the previous reviewer, you can't rate a book by it's cover! Did you even read this book? Or did you give it a low rating because you don't like that Kurt Cobain is on the cover? This is a really thorough yet concise overview of a subject. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about suicide.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not for families of suicide victims,
This review is from: Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look At Why People Kill Themselves (Paperback)
This book may be useful from a clinical perspective, but I definitely don't recommend it if you are someone who is trying to "make sense" of a loved one's suicide. At one point the author actually says something like, "a sensitive and astute person can recognize the signs of suicide and prevent it." I thought this was a very insenstive statement, as it seems to place blame for a person's suicide on their loved ones! It is also innacurate, as many people who have lost loved ones to suicide can attest to, for even if a person shows signs of being suicidal, you cannot force someone to get help if they won't accept it. Having said this, this book may be useful for people who are studying the subject objectively, and in fact it seems like this is the intended audience.
4 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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By boilingwatergenitals (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look At Why People Kill Themselves (Paperback)
"Provides an excellent jumping-off point", talk about your poor choices of words!
2 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Poster child of suicide?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look At Why People Kill Themselves (Paperback)
Kurt Cobain was much more than just the poster child of suicide that he seems to have become.
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Making Sense of Suicide: An In-Depth Look At Why People Kill Themselves by David Lester (Paperback - January 15, 1997)
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