Re: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 14:29:11 BST

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    From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
    > The bias where I work with to understand this all, is by Van Heeringen,
    > a Dutch professor who works in the Academic Clinic, Ghent.
    > I suppose he has a webside...

    I didn't find a website for him, but this turned up:
    http://www.pn.unimaas.nl/central/mmaes/html/crc_mh.htm
    http://www.fc.net/~zarathus/schools/data_on_young_lesbians'_and_gay_men's_suic
    ide_attempts.txt

    Apparently van Heeringen works mostly with homosexuals.

    I speculate that one of the elements of suicidal contagion is high IQ, since
    there is a correlation between IQ and suicide. Of course, without
    intelligence, memes don't propagate at all, so what I'm referring to here is
    intelligence that deals with abstractions.

    τΏτ

    Stay hungry,

    --J. R.

    Useless hypotheses:
     consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
    analog computing, cultural relativism

         Everything that can happen has already happened, not just once,
         but an infinite number of times, and will continue to do so forever.
         (Everything that can happen = more than anyone can imagine.)

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