Showing results for "Suicide" in History

The men of the 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion were some of the most effective shock troops of the Allied forces in the Great War. They drove back German forces wherever they met and refused ever to surrender. Such tactics struck fear in their enemies, yet it came at a tremendous cost. Of the 5374 officers and men who passed through the unit, a total of 4917, or 91 percent, were either killed or wounded.

READ BY THE AUTHOR The bestselling author of The Parasitic Mind shows why empathy in politics leads to civilizational collapse. What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel? You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad calls suicidal empathy. And the West...

An independent podcast where suicide attempt survivors (and ideators) can actually talk openly and honestly without being fixed, shamed, stigmatized, threatened, criticized, patronized, compared, invalidated, pitied, diagnosed, judged or any of that b.s.Our primary goal is simply to help more people in more places feel a little less shitty and a little less shitty and less alone. Please rate, review, subscribe and let folks know about us - thank you.TALK with me: hello@suicidenoted.comSUPPORT the podcast: donorbox.org/support-suicide-noted-via-media-allianceAUDIO message: speakpipe.com/...

The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the...

Brought to you by Penguin. One of the last major stories on the Third Reich that remains largely untold is that of the extraordinary wave of suicides, carried out not just by much of the Nazi leadership, but by thousands of ordinary Germans, in the Second World War's closing period. Some of...

Just in time for the presidential election of 2016 comes Political Suicide, a history of the best and most interesting missteps, peccadilloes, bad calls, backroom hijinks, sordid pasts, rotten breaks, and just plain dumb mistakes in the annals of American politics.

Shortly after John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln, he was tracked down and shot by authorities - that's what was officially reported, anyway. Lawyer Finis L. Bates, however, decided to set the record straight when he reported that in 1870 his acquaintance "John St. Helen" revealed himself to be none other than Booth living under an alter ego. Bates' version of the story is this: a hushed-up escape led Booth to 38 years of secret identities and an eventual suicide in an Oklahoma hotel. In this historical text, Bates unpacks the surprising truth about this infamous assassin.

On the evening of April 8, 1968 Roger Allan Williams showed up at the home of Linda Ann Wood in East Vancouver. Minutes later Linda was found in a pool of blood on her porch. Linda had been stabbed over 14 times to her torso, neck and chest. Linda died in an ambulance en route to Vancouver General Hospital.After his trial, Roger Williams was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of Linda Ann Wood. Decades later an archive of Roger's poetry, articles, short stories and artwork was found at the Matsqui Prison. This treasure trove would one day help another man heal from his own life ...

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness.

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites. Along...

After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war - the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs. This was not a physical injury that could heal with medication and time but a "moral injury" - a wound to the soul that eventually urged him toward suicide. Desperate for relief from the pain and guilt, Voss embarked on a 2,700-mile journey across America with a fellow veteran. Listeners walk with these men as they meet other veterans, Native American healers, and spiritual teachers.

Everyone is saying we need to talk more about Mental Health and Suicide but who is? The Irish nationwide charity; Suicide or Survive invite you to join us as we talk to communities about stigma and mental health from the lens of lived experience. Launching in January 2023 - #ConnectionsPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.