Death is so instructive.
Two artists kill themselves in Manhattan. If there’s no one around to review it, did it really happen?
Reports begin with the externals, “They were so beautiful, intelligent and moneyed.” Ah, American press, with its competitions, its grading, also implying, “They had everything. This seems so random.”
This angle makes for a story.
However, they were paranoid. Something about Scientologists coming after them.
Chances are, it will be revealed that someone or both of them went on or off some drugs, prescription or non-prescription, and the thought patterns got into a loop. First, the beautiful, literate woman said, “No more,” in the comfort of her own home, like any good writer. And then the visual guy walked into the sea. How pretty.
Suicide is something people do who are very rigid in their thought patterns. They hold onto some idea that does not serve them until they expire from it. The idea was more important than living. What egocentrism.
Many psychological problems arise from being very attached to wrong thinking.
Albert Ellis, the founder of R.E.M.—Rational Emotive Therapy—just died. He made cognitive therapy very popular in this country. “Stop thinking that way! Think this way!”
Good idea.
2 comments:
I've always been an admirer of R.E.M.... another of their key people who died a few years ago said something like...
I didn't know Ellis just died...
You know...I wouldn't dismiss the Scientologist thing. We were on their list for a long time, getting junk mail every day. Then magically the mail stopped for about 4 years. Then, all of a sudden, the past few months we're being inundated again. Every day, about 2 or 3 magazines or postcards. It's enough to make you want to ki -- oh. I guess I shouldn't say that.
David K
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