Family History of Suicide

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

I was reading the obits (why what do you do for recreation?

I came across the death of Pedro Díaz Lanz, who died in Miami at the age of 81 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Sad. But then I read on:

  • Three other siblings died in violent circumstances: Jorge killed himself in Miami in 1976; Esther María was murdered in Miami Beach in 1986; and Guillermo hanged himself in Havana in 1998. *

I have never encountered, even heard of, a family with such a gruesome history.

I thought it deserved mention.

2

The poster family would be the Hemingways (Ernest et all). :frowning:

3

I knew a woman once who had lost her husband and two sons to very gruesome suicides. If I remember correctly, one suffocated himself with a plastic bag, and one set himself on fire. Many types of mental illness run in families, and I was always told that simply being a survivor of a suicide in my immediate family made me statitistically more likely to be a suicide myself. Can’t find any hard data on that latter claim at the moment but I know I’ve seen studies on it.