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Marilyn Monroe Research Paper

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For many of us, suicide is an emotionally laden, fear-provoking human tragedy. Even people, who have attempted suicide, often cannot adequately explain their wish to die. Suicide is so perplexing to us because it is incongruent. Reasons and actions of people who commit suicide do not add up. In many cases, suicide does not seem to make sense. Case in point, Marilyn Monroe; what on earth could cause a person who had everything one could want, to commit suicide? It is not that we have not known about people in our community committing suicide. We have all heard of people who took their life. In some cases, the suicide seemed rational. People in horrendous pain, who decide to end the pain is an example of a rational reason. But, is it? Can there ever be a rational reason for someone like Marilyn Monroe to …show more content…

When studying the history and behavior of people who take their own life, the accounts are limited to one or two people who knew the person at some level. This is a problem. Accounts by several people familiar with the person who commits suicide, often does not provide the forensic evidence we need to understand the behavior. One or several accounts by family and friends who are not trained observers of human behavior fall short of giving us a full picture of what happed and why it happened. In the case of high-profile celebrities, we do not have that problem. Accounts of the life of a celebrity such as Marilyn Monroe are numerous and they detail her every waking moment. The limitation of these accounts is that many of the events reported are more related to publicity and salacious scandal manufactured to sell magazines, newspapers, and movies than to tell the life story of an extraordinary person. Marilyn needed a little help generating salacious stories. Her promiscuity was legendary. She also did not have to look for a rational reason to commit suicide;

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