Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site genat.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!genat!phoenix
From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.suicide,net.music
Subject: Re: Richard Beck's 'Illusions'
Message-ID: <2588@genat.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 08:19:15 EST
Article-I.D.: genat.2588
Posted: Wed Mar 19 08:19:15 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 20-Mar-86 09:11:17 EST
References: <666@puff.UUCP> <156@minnie.UUCP>
Reply-To: phoenix@genat.UUCP ()
Followup-To: net.suicide
Distribution: net
Organization: Genamation Inc. (Toronto Ontario, Canada)
Lines: 40
Keywords: suicide to music
Xref: utcs net.books:3161 net.suicide:752
Summary: suicide triggers

In article <156@minnie.UUCP> chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) writes:
>anich@puff.UUCP (Steve Anich) says:
>>
>>	I was told that when Beck's book Illusions was 
>>published, many people committed suicide. Is there any
>>truth to that? His books are wierd, but not that wierd.
>>
>
>	Yes, there is truth to that rumor.  I remember when I was
>living in Seattle, reading a story in the news about a teenage couple
>that committed joint suicide, leaving a note that indicated the book
>Illusions was a major contributor to their decision.
>
>	There followed some interviews with a psychologist discussing
>the role Bach's book in recent teenage suicides.
>
>	Wasn't there a similar phenomenom concerning a song named
>Blue Monday, or something like that?  I may have the song wrong but I do
>recall hearing about the occurence.
>
>
>-- 
>	Chris Grevstad
>
>	If things don't change, they will probably remain the same.

Well, outside of pointing out the obvious (eg., *Suicide is Painless*
from the movie and the tv series M*A*S*H), there is a ban put on the
song *Take Your Life* from the album "Doonesbury's Jimmy Thudpucker's
Greatest Hits".  To my (uncertain) knowledge, this lp is banned in
Canada from being played on the air.

-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


---"A man should live forever...or die trying."
---"There is no substitute for good manners...except fast reflexes."