Melancholia - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 20 May 2012 23:40:16 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Melancholia - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Suicide is the new leprosy https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/22/suicide-is-the-new-leprosy/ Mon, 21 May 2012 19:32:18 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=25756

In recent times two films, Another Earth and Melancholia, have given sensitive treatment to the subjects of depression and suicide. As well, Nothing Prepared Me For This, has been published. It is a book that brings together the writings of a number of relations and friends of people who have committed suicide. In a recent Read more

Suicide is the new leprosy... Read more]]> In recent times two films, Another Earth and Melancholia, have given sensitive treatment to the subjects of depression and suicide. As well, Nothing Prepared Me For This, has been published. It is a book that brings together the writings of a number of relations and friends of people who have committed suicide.

In a recent article, Andrew Hamilton says that "a common public response to suicide is very similar to earlier attitudes to leprosy. The former makes silent people who need to speak. The latter makes invisible people who need to be seen."

Andrew Hamilton is consulting editor of Eureka Street.

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