His note read: “…I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

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Network science provides tools for quantifying and reconstructing both semantic frames 18, 19, 20 and emotional associations 12, serving as a framework for the quantitative identification of ways in which people perceive events and happenings 12, 14, 19, 21, 22. In comparison to more opaque machine learning techniques, networks have the advantage of transparently representing a proxy for the associative structure of language in the human mind, within the cognitive system apt at acquiring, storing and producing language, i.e. the mental lexicon 21, 23. Supported by psycholinguistic inquiries into the mental lexicon 14, 23, 24, 25, complex networks built from texts can open a window into people’s mindsets 12. Focus here is given to reconstructing the collective mindset as expressed in the last written words left by people who committed suicide. To this aim, we adopt a corpus of genuine suicide notes gathered in a previous study 9 and including 139 letters from people who committed suicide. The letters come from a collection of suicide notes from sources like newspapers, books and diaries collected by clinical psychologists mostly in the US and in Europe. The notes were written and collected over a time window spanning over 60 years and have been used also for recent machine learning approaches to automatic detection of suicide ideation 9. On average, a letter included 120 ± 12 words and a total of over 2000 different concepts were stated in the whole corpus. Cognitive network approach to suicidal ideation analysis Unlike several well-known studies of semantic networks 26, 27 based on semantic associations stored in lexical databases, in our approach networks of associations are extracted directly from raw texts as written down by individual people. As such it can be seen as an extension of map analysis, as used by Carley 28, 29, enriched with: (i) link extraction and analysis based on modern natural language processing and network science metrics, (ii) additional cognitive data about affect patterns used in synergy with network structure, and (iii) linguistic benchmarks relying on recent datasets of conceptual associations (namely, free associations, see next section). These three points represent key ways in which we build upon and extend previous methods. People usually speculates that suicide would be at its peak in the darker and colder season that will surely sparked melancholia; but the total reverse actually happened. Suicide peaks at the most brightest and mildest season; people actually choose the season with least difficulty to die. The closest data in supporting the seasonal data, would be the pattern that as the day lengthens, the rate of suicides increase greatly. What would explain this pattern? And this is also reinforced by the fact that 3/5 of the suicide happened in daytime, and peaked at the strongest heat; which is a time of maximum social interactions. I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to stay long enough to graduate and get a job. I'm sorry that I'm leaving you. I hope in the next life I will have a better childhood, parents, and friends. I hope it's better than this life I hope it's not as sad as this life. I'm so sorry that I couldn't match up and fit your expectations for you. I'm sorry for not being enough for you and not being the greatest at everything. I'm tired, tired of all of this. You shouldn't be sad that I'm gonna be leaving the world's overpopulation anyway and I won't matter there and the worlds gonna die and end either way. I wish I got the help I needed. I wish I was able to open up and be able to cry. I wish I was able to feel something but now I'm empty and can't feel anything like I'm avoiding. I wish I made a better decision in making friends. I wish I was able to talk to someone. I know life isn't fair and that it's shitty and not everything will go to plan so I hope you can understand me for leaving it might take a while so I'm sorry your gonna have to go through this. I'm sorry for the pain I'm gonna put you through. It's my fault your gonna be sad now. Please don't be sad that I'll be gone. Be happy for me because this is what I want. Let me go and be free from this endless depressing cycle I have.”PESTIAN: Hopefully we'll start enrolling in early fall and it'll last - enrollment will be about a year to 18 months, and then about a year worth of analysis before we can kind of get to that stage. So it's a couple years away. This is truly a one of a kind. Surely you've read about famous suicide notes before, surely you've seen big history books explaining big events through small causes, surely you're read Big Science books that look for a Theory of Everything, but something like Mitchell Heisman's Suicide Note only comes once in a life-time.

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Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity; an era in which traditional social and religious ties are no longer assumed, and in which new social institutions have come into being. His first major sociological work was The Division of Labor in Society (1893). In 1895, he published his Rules of the Sociological Method and set up the first European department of sociology, becoming France's first professor of sociology. He says in his book that many people choose not to be free due to their xenophobia of death...this is true, but I have wayyy too many things I want to do in life, and wayyy too many things I'm curious about to ever potentially be able to call quits! Including: I'm curious to see how I die. In my last minutes (or seconds) before death, I'd be able to think "So this is how I die...this is how old I grew to be..." And I want that to forever be a mystery. PESTIAN: So myself and the folks in my lab, we collected that over about the last five or seven years. A large contributor was Dr. Edwin Shneidman, who was the father of suicide research at UCLA, and Dr. Anton Leenaars up in Canada, and we work together in collecting these data and mining them together to create what we would call, from the linguistic side, a corpus.

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In many circumstances, the only difference between a completed suicide and a suicide attempt is slightly greater pressure applied to a trigger. In either case the importance of gaining a greater understanding of the psychological conditions surrounding such a tragic event is immediately apparent; what leads an individual to contemplate, and perhaps commit, such an act? Similarly, what sorts of thoughts and feelings does one encounter when experiencing suicidal ideation? And how might our understanding of these phenomena aid in improving prevention efforts? Although these are challenging questions, suicide notes represent one potential window into the psychology of individuals who complete suicide 1, 2. By analyzing the language and contents of suicide notes, we can gain unique insight into shared features of individual experiences and perhaps a greater understanding of the cognitive processes that accompany suicidal ideation 3. My men Mitchell should have tried reading some snuff to take his edge off."Hurr durr nobody beside me ever glorified death" go outside. JOHN PESTIAN: Oh, thank you for inviting me. And just for the record, I'm not a pediatrician. I'm a scientist there.