Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drill press. He shot himself in the chest. Tom Wacha, 18, a loner who planned to go to trade school, also shot himself. According to police, he had told a friend that he was "disgusted with life." In addition to these three, four other Bryan students tried to kill themselves in the past three weeks but failed...
...guns. Five boys in New York's Westchester and Putnam counties died by their own hand in February 1984, four of them by hanging. Within the past two weeks, one student at David Prouty High School in Spencer, Mass., committed suicide; at least two schoolmates, possibly four, tried to kill themselves and failed...
...teenagers go through a normal period of depression and mourning for the loss of childhood attachment. The job of parents, she says, is to help youngsters remove their passions from the family and place them in the outside community. "That's one reason why so many boys seem to kill themselves after breaking up with a girlfriend," she says. "The breakup is felt as a failure to break out of the family orbit...
...STRONGER GLUE and tighter seals will not help. As the chairman of Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol, conceded, "No package is tamper-proof." The problem is not package design, but cultural design. To appropriate the hackneyed cry of the gun lobby--tainted pills don't kill people, people kill people...
...people kill, and what can we do to stop them? Too often, we appeal to unseen forces to explain behavior. A psychiatrist on one of the local news shows suggested that the Tylenol murderer acted out of "feelings of alienation and frustration and great hostility." But that explains nothing. Why does he (or she) feel "alienated" or "frustrated" or "hostile?" The causes of these pseudo-causes lie outside the person, in the environment. And it is the environment we must change if we are to change the individual's behavior...