Sad Shortcuts To Eternity...

Over one million people commit suicide every year, making it the 10th leading cause of death worldwide. It is a leading cause of death among teenagers and adults under 35. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year. The most common cause is a variety of underlying psychiatric disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism and drug abuse. The most common method is gunshot. This list will be examining some of the famous cases of suicide.

VIRGINIA WOLF

Virginia Wolf left a note for his husband before he wore her coat and filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the river near their house on March 28, 1941. “ I feel certain that I am going mad again… and I can’t recover this time”. It was after she published her last novel.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Hemingway killed himself through gunshot.

SYLVIA PLATH

Plath was a great American poet and novelist. She killed herself through gassing herself in the kitchen. She thrust her head into the gas oven.

RYUNOSUKE ATUTAGAWA

The Japanese writer of “Rashomon” who killed himself in 1927 by an overdose of barbiturates. “The world I am now in is one of diseased nerves, lucid as ice,” read part of his suicide note. “Such voluntary death must give us peace, if not happiness…”

JAMES ROBERT BAKER

American cult writer, author of “Fuel Injected Dreams” and an early pioneer in gay themed literature, killed himself in 1997.

JOHN BERRYMAN

American poet, jumped from a bridge in 1972.

JOHN GOULD FLETCHER

American Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, like Woolf, drowned himself in a pond near his home.

SIGMUND FREUD

Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychoanalysis, believed we all had a “life drive” and “death drive”. Through his life, Freud used cocaine, which was legal in the late 19th century, and sought to open up peoples’ minds regarding the fundamentals of mental illness. Freud succumbed to his “death drive” in 1939, by taking an overdose of morphine.

YUKIO MISHIMA

Three-time Nobel Prize nominee for literature, committed ritual suicide, disemboweling himself with a sword in the traditional seppuku fashion.

JERZY KOSINSKI

On May 3, 1991, his wife found his body in a half-filled bathtub, a suffocating plastic bag wrapped around his head. “ I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual”, read Kosinski’s suicide note. “ Call it Eternity”.

HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Perhaps most famous for his 1972 novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, Thompson put a bullet through his brain and ended his life. “No More Games,” read a note delivered to his wife shortly before the incident. “ No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This wont hurt.”

ANNE SEXTON

On October 4, 1974, right after meeting with a close friend to discuss her latest book of poetry (The Awful Rowing Toward God),
Sexton went home, locked herself in the garage with the car running, and succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.

E.T. has not gone home yet! He is still around...

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Sorry to destroy your believe: Some Popular Myths Busted!

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves.

 

 In fact, it freed little or no slaves. Why? Because the emancipation proclamation – 1862 – declared the freedom of all slaves in the confederate states – that is, the states over which Lincoln and the Union government had no control. Furthermore, it did not free slaves from any of the states that were already under union control. This would be like Australia trying to declare a law binding on New Zealanders, when they are two separate nations. The emancipation proclamation was, effectively, worthless. It was not until the Thirteenth Amendment, December 6, 1865, that slavery was officially abolished in full.

 

 

 

 

Goldfish have a memory of only three seconds.

 The notion that goldfish have a memory of only three seconds is completely false
They have been trained to navigate mazes and can recognize their owners after an exposure of a few months.

 

 

 

 

Jihad is an “Islamic war on the western world”

 

 Jihad is not an “Islamic war on the western world” but rather a verb meaning to struggle or to strive. One can have an internal jihad, family jihad, or religious jihad, which may or may not include violence towards non-Muslims
A comparison may be made with the term “crusade”, which is sometimes considered by Muslims to mean Western violence against Islam, when it is more often used as a metaphorical struggle; for example, “a crusade against drugs”.

 

 

 

 

You can extend your penis or widen its girth with special devices or medications

This is patently untrue and the source of millions of spam emails sent around the world every day. Vacuum pumps, pills, stretching techniques: none of them make one iota of difference to the size of your manhood (and consequently the engine size of your car). The only way to enlarge your penis is to have enhancement surgery. This is, obviously, extremely expensive, extremely painful, and extremely gruesome.

The Fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden was an apple

 Nowhere in the Bible is the fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden referred to as an apple. The fruit is called the “fruit of the tree” (that is, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil), and neither the fruit nor the tree is identified by species. In Middle English, as late as the 17th century “apple” was a generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts
However, in continental European art from that period representing the Fall of Man the fruit is often depicted as an apple. The apple myth comes from a Latin word likeness: Latin mălus = “bad”, mălum = “an evil”, mālus = “apple tree” and “mast of a ship”, mālum = “apple (fruit)”.

 

 

 

 

Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump

First of all, just so you know, it is true that adult elephants can’t jump – if by jumping we mean the state of having no feet on the ground at the same time after propelling oneself from a stationary position. But contrary to the popular myth that it is is the only mammal that can’t, it is joined by a few others. Firstly, the sloth is unable to jump which suits its lazy lifestyle rather well. Also, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses also cannot jump, though unlike elephants, when they run it is possible for them to have all four feet off the ground. 

Shaving cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker

 Shaving does not cause hair to grow back thicker or coarser or darker. This belief is due to the fact that hair that has never been cut has a tapered end, whereas, after cutting, there is no taper. Thus, it appears thicker, and feels coarser due to the sharper, unworn edges. Hair can also appear darker after it grows back because hair that has never been cut is often lighter due to sun exposure.

 

 

 

 

Sugar cause hyperactivity in children

 Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children double blind trials have shown no difference in behavior between children given sugar full or sugar-free diets, even in studies specifically looking at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or those considered “sensitive” to sugar. In fact, it was found that the difference in the children’s behavior was all in the parents’ minds

 

 

 

 

There is a dark side of the Moon

 

 There is no dark side of the Moon; every part of the Moon’s surface (except perhaps deep craters near the poles) is illuminated by the Sun roughly half of the time. The phrase uses the word “dark” in the less-frequent sense of “unknown” or “obscure” to refer to the far side of the Moon, which because of tidal locking is never visible from Earth.

 

 

 

 

The Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space.

 It is commonly claimed that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from the Moon. This is false. None of the Apollo astronauts reported seeing any man-made object from the Moon. The misconception is believed to have been popularized by Richard Halliburton decades before the first moon landing

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You are lucky because these people are not your siblings or family members!

Extreme Piercing. Lot of people just want to be noticed. Others just want to represent any kind of an idea, movement, want to belong. For some it’s their way of culture, tradition.  For you, their is a slideshow of pictures of the people who wont go unnoticed. If they are not loud enough, their actions are.

 

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