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...Founding the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center in 1958 made Edwin Shneidman, 91, a pioneer in the field of suicide psychology. He later started a national prevention project that helped blunt the stigma associated with...
Cohen’s youthful spirit permeates into the classroom, where undergraduate and graduate students marvel at the energy of this up-and-coming science star. Anna V. Shneidman ’09, a student in Cohen’s fall term Chemistry 163: “Frontiers in Biophysics,” noted his “enthusiasm and childlike wonder with scientific questions...
Typically, the strains of medicine are felt most acutely after ten to 15 years. Early signs of distress are extramarital affairs and physical upsets, including insomnia and diarrhea. Some suicidal physicians may also avoid social contact, draw up wills or make unexpected gifts. Says U.C.L.A. Thanatologist Edwin Shneidman: "If a colleague offers you his prized microscope, you might want to sit down with him and try to identify his problem...
...authorities make it easy for the jumper. Roving uniformed patrols peel an occasional eye for prospects. But, principally for aesthetic reasons, the kind of barrier that radically reduced leaps from Manhattan's Empire State Building, for instance, has never blighted the beauty of the Golden Gate. This horrifies Shneidman, who has prodded the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, the agency responsible, to withdraw its invitation to suicide. He rejects the board's argument that if it stops the bridge jumper, he will only go somewhere else to take his life...
...person cannot commit suicide when and where he wants in an impulsive moment," says Shneidman, "he might just say the hell with it." At a meeting last week, the board accepted Shneidman's proposal to consider installing a physical barrier against would-be jumpers...