Warum begang Evelyn McHale Selbstmord?

Evelyn McHaleWas war es, das die siebenundzwanzigjährige Evelyn McHale einen Monat vor ihrer geplanten Hochzeit (im Juni 1947) in den Tod getrieben hat?

I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.

Bin ich der einzige, den gerade der letzte Satz ihres Abschiedsbriefs am meisten schockiert?

Begehen Tiere Selbstmord?

Begehen Tiere Selbstmord? Tatsächlich gibt es darüber eine wissenschaftliche Debatte, die von verschiedenen Vorkommnissen genährt wird.

Animal suicide may seem absurd, yet the concept is as old as philosophy. Aristotle told a story about a stallion that leaped into an abyss after realizing it was duped into mating with its mother, and the topic was discussed by early Christian theologians and Victorian academics.