The the
picture you know about Shane dealing with the problem of shop destruction his
purpose was to enable people to better understand the nature of this strange tragic
act we should not be able to diminish this great human affliction until now.
People do understand that the pressure he did. Sure yes.
Sonny. We were terribly shocked to hear
that you in the ways of separating We just don't understand how could you possibly
do this to your mother and dad.
We've always tried to do the best for you but evidently it hasn't paid off.
How will we be able to face off friends after they hear about this some of them
knew you was a little boy it's so painful.
If you wonder why we need money we don't mind sacrificing for you as you know
Mother and Dad have always done so in the past and
that of course you will remember that when you were in the we were married.
We felt this might not work out but you thought you.
The the.
Challenge. Mind you shut down your station here.
I want to talk with your mom
and Mr
Hendricks Charlie isn't feeling very well today.
I suggest that he see a doctor right away.
I'll guarantee for like a good idea at least I don't know what's been the matter
or things. Sure I'll git out there.
Mr time and get a good picture say establish rally a little bit.
If you didn't have breakfast this morning but a good one to hear
that I know you're upset by your wife's leaving anybody would be
but we out to get the ball yourself together work out all right.
And all that we know is that what you're going to kid to come on back home.
I know I made a mess of things last week but I don't know what's happening to me
but I think things would be a whole lot better if you're in the kid with someone
back home.
Around our house.
I know the way that I can't explain but I can act.
I know I have them here. My partner. That's always money isn't it. Louis.
Now I can. Work out.
Mr
Banks
going up.
Thirty seconds slower.
This is far as we go.
The bomb a way of just same shows a man heading for self-destruction.
How can we understand his behavior.
First it seems to me that.
We have to react to this experience I think it was a strictly them personally.
You think this type of thing that really happened.
No question that happens every day and probably happens more often than we know.
While this was a.
The department of an individual case we know the police to test pick some suicide
such as they are our minimum statistic.
This happens to the whole family is aware of this. Yes families are aware of it.
They know that suicide happen
but far too often they're not aware of it until it's too late.
They're left with the grief and confusion and the guilt. After that not any.
Nothing else they can do. It's already happened.
We look at some of the saints in the film I just think. And discuss this further.
Or say that significant in the first thing. I think several things.
Freshly first of all it's been a
vicious night. There's the element of rage to the process.
He looks depressed.
I think the thing that I would that would come to mind that I would want
that depression. Although we see signs of it here.
It's not the only suicide this man's wife
would notice
that there's something very special about him saying in this way if he were there.
Wife just like the other people who see this man
and his life on this particular day people who may have something to compare it
with from having known him previously which perhaps it's wife perhaps
other people who see him in just a little bit of his life like the policeman
or the elevator operator or the doctor
or the doctor only have a chance to say what he present at that any given moment.
Let's say some more of the story for.
What do you. I think you have to see it as.
Constant waxing in a way those two forces operating in different directions.
In the one instance there's the preoccupation with suicide.
He's saying that he feels two ways about actually doing it and
that part of him is trying to come back at this point we use the technical term of
ambivalence. That is the veil of meaning moving towards towards something
and the meaning both Namely he moves toward two things so
that in practically every suicidal case we see individuals who at the same time
that they're moving toward self-destruction making plans executing acts and so on.
At this very same time they are reaching out with rescuers a fantasy making cries
for help.
Sometimes of of almost unconscious preparations for the interruption of this act
and they're doing both at the same time all the feelings
that the person has this before he died
and this comes out in many suicide notes are not feelings of anger
and death and destruction and murderous. Feelings.
Some of them are actually warm positive feelings and
that maybe there is a time just before the person does this story himself
and we can make use of his positive reaching out.
Let's go to showing him with people.
I think this word.
Can be overemphasized that's the important thing in this
that if you notice a change in a person. This is the best clue.
Not for suicide specifically but all sorts of psychiatric
and psychological difficulties.
If old Henry isn't how he used to be our sweet Betty seems different or whatever
and if that's a curse to you. I think this is a thing which ought to alert one.
There's another point too. In this instance we see merely one kind of person.
As an example of the type of people two persons in troubles are referred this is a
physician in the sense it's what it might just as well be a minister a lawyer
or supervisor in a shop for example some neighbor someone
else.
There are a whole variety of persons who characteristically are people who are in
receipt of requests from people in trouble. How common is the problem of suicide.
To answer this question I think we have to say more than figures and statistics
but to mention the the known statistics the report of statistics for a moment we
can say something like the suicide ranks among the first.
In the causes of death among adults in some states of our country is as high as the
sixth leading cause of death in some age group specifically from fifteen to twenty
five.
It's the third leading cause of death of them part this is an artifact because the
other causes of death are not operating
that certain occupational groups like peacetime service. College students.
It's a third leading cause of death according to reports
that is no other kind of death.
Imagine by cancer or heart or accident
or whatever leaves such an ugly backwash of emotional.
Material as a suicidal death.
I think if one were to put this in a sense of what the suicidal death is
insist that the survivors abscess about suicide for the rest of their lives.
In the film I am I am standing on the ledge you think you really want to live.
The answer of course is yes.
We've talked about the embellishments of the individual.
We've talked about the fact
that people have the same time they're telling themselves reach out for help.
So that if we say no to this question.
Then we write off people unnecessarily.
Further that this whole situation
and what is happening to this person raises the question which is really implicit
in this presentation. Namely does Ron have a right to interfere with us.
Kind of process should you save a person who seems intent upon destroying himself
and our whole experience. Seems to point without any question.
In one direction and the question is.
The question is whether or not one has this right.
The answer is one have this obligation.
What are some of the things that can be done.
Well I think there are several things that can be done.
But it immediately brings into mine own a prophylactic level.
The involvement of the family in some kind of an appreciation of what it is that's
going on among family members by the family.
I think it also involves a need for examining physicians to constantly keep
themselves to this as a possibility.
I guess as a social worker one of the things
that with a down to impress name of how people are really enter related with each
other and stuff and then fan than. Suicide can hardly ever take place.
If people are truly in communication with each other.
My interest in the most suicides.
It is
but one facet of an interest in what seems to me to be a larger more encompassing
problem.
We touched on it earlier has to do with the meaning of death death in the very
largest sense for the citizen seeing this film as we've seen it asked him self the
question What can I do about this
or the one think you can do is to break down the taboos
that we've had up to now about talking about death.
And to recognize that all the death is an intensely personal matter.
It has enormously ramified social implications.
I reflected as I saw this as I do
when I see our hear about any suicide case.
Really what great challenges
and what enormous opportunities there were to learn about human beings their
functioning to expand our clinical skills.
And our scientific knowledge by thinking about the suicidal phenomena.
I believe.
We have not been able to cover all of the various topics
that relate to the problem of the side.
But perhaps this found that our discussion of the story
that was told can serve as a springboard for more meaningful discussion.
Where groups. From the time of a this film Think about the nature of the problem.