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;
Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life and sociologists over the years have tried to put forward various explanations for why someone may do this. Within sociology there are many different views on suicide on the causes and explanations for it, these come from two main methodologies which are Positivists who believe that sociology is a science and they should aim to make causal laws on suicide rates, compared to Interpretivists who believe that they should look for meaning behind occurrences and certain individuals experiences before the suicide. Other perspectives also put in their views on what they believe to
Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life and sociologists over the years have tried to put forward various explanations for why someone may do this. Within sociology there are many different views on suicide on the causes and explanations for it, these come from two main methodologies which are Positivists who believe that sociology is a science and they should aim to make causal laws on suicide rates, compared to Interpretivists who believe that they should look for meaning behind occurrences and certain individuals experiences before the suicide. Other perspectives also put in their views on what they believe to explain
The medical definition of suicide is the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally. For the family members who end up losing someone to this permanent decision are left to questioning what exactly lead up to their loved one making the decision to take their own life. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention website suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States but the 11th leading cause of death in the state of Texas; based on information collected by the CDC in 2015 44,193 deaths occur from suicide and 3,403 of those take place in the state of Texas. (2017) Suicide is definitely a heartbreaking event that can emotionally effect the victim’s family and also people who have
Many human deaths are caused by depression, depression can be described by feeling sad, unhappy, or miserable. Research has shown that 90 percent of people who kill themselves suffered from depression, or another diagnosable mental or substance abuse disorder that leads them to this horrible tragedy called suicide (Wilson). Depression can lead to suicide if its not being treated, in the worst case. A harmful life event or events can lead to be a cause of a suicide attempt. If your wife died and you feel like you ca not deal with it, you drown yourself into drugs and drinking, you are left alone your children are now adults and are gone away somewhere married and they can not come with you. So you continue to drown yourself, until you do not have any more money and you go homeless, you then think and start talking to yourself
Marilyn Monroe, for most of America, embodies confidence, sexuality, and talent. She is often referred to as the face of beauty and brains of the 1950’s. However, this rising star was quickly snuffed out, leaving an air of mystery surrounding her. Marilyn Monroe's’ death, legally, was declared a suicide; however, it is obvious through missing evidence, Marilyn herself, and changing witness statements that the only probably clause for her death is murder.
By her night table, empty bottles of medication were strewn. In one hand, she held a telephone. Investigators stated that the 36 year old died because of an overdose and was marked off as a suicide. The proposition that the death of Marilyn Monroe was a suicide is a fascinating mystery that can be supported by her dysfunctional family and her unfortunate lifestyle, her diagnosed depression, and her autopsy report after she died; even the counter
Marilyn Monroe said, “Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.” As a child she was moved around and put in care of many different people. Marilyn Monroe became a famous actress, despite her difficult childhood.
Suicide is is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors include mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, alcoholism, or drug abuse. People choose suicide when they are hopeless or when they think there isn’t anyone that cares for them anymore. They can also choose this if they think there isn’t an end to their suffering or to their problem. Most of the time this happens because of depression and in some cases bullying, it can also happen because of alcohol or because of a major stressful event that has happened. Suicide can really happen anywhere and at any time.Suicide is a problem that exists because the numbers of suicide keep going up and won’t come down.
Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, later baptized as Norma Jeane Baker. Marilyn was beautiful, talented, young, rich, everything she could possibly want. But behind that happy lucky face, Marilyn was a different person. Marilyn was unsure, self destructive, and had a disabling drug and man problems, she isn't very perfect as most people say.Marilyn was almost smothered at two and nearly raped at six. At sixteen Marilyn worked in an aircraft, she was a stewardess. It was her first job that she liked because she met and married a man she called Daddy. Daddy decided to go to the military and Marilyn was discovered and started her modeling career,with them going separate ways, divorced in 1946. No one knows Monroe’s biological father. Some say it was Gladys’ second husband, Martin Mortensen. Gladys Baker Mortensen, mother of Marilyn, was a film-cutter at RKO studios. She was alone and mentally ill. and was taken to a mental hospital, Marilyn went to a foster home. Gladys and Martin were separated before M arilyn’s birth. Others say Marilyn’s father was a co-worker at RKO
In 1937, Marilyn moved in with a family friend, Grace Mckee Goddard for some years. But then in 1942, the Goddard family relocated to the East Coast for Doc’s job and could not afford to take her with them. Since Marilyn’s mother only paid the Goddard’s family twenty-five dollars a week to raise Marilyn. Monroe then returned to a life in foster homes where she claimed to be sexually assaulted on
Norma Jean Mortenson ignited passion in men across the nation when photographer David Connover captured her beauty at an army airplane facility and opened the World to the booming bombshell. From that moment on, her life changed forever. She began to go by Marilyn Monroe and started her career in acting by co-staring in the film “Dangerous Years” which premiered in 1947. Monroe was the first Playboy model and appeared in the first edition in 1955. She starred in various movies, playing a plethora of roles.
She was spoiled, unsure (Rudnick 2) and considered a dumb blonde (anb.org. 1) as she broke down many times between scenes of acting (Rudnick 2), she was considered an unserious actress. Despite the behavior, Monroe was still an inspiring, most famous person yet known. Monroe dedicated herself and built up to her career and image that she was and still is (Derakhshani 1). In the Mid 1950’s, Monroe became the most popular actress because of her sexual and vulnerable character (anb.org. 2).
Marilyn Monroe- A Woman We Can All Learn From Actress, Marilyn Monroe, born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, overcame a difficult childhood to become one of the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbols. She died of a drug overdose in 1962. Marilyn Monroe is judged on how she acts in movies and people don’t realize that she had a really rough childhood, and she did something great to be able to cope with it. Marilyn Monroe overcame her past by becoming an actress and public figure.
Marilyn Monroe is constantly searching for the love she never received as a child. She has been with or rumored to have been with many powerful men, most of which were shallow flings trying to fill a void she has. Marilyn Monroe has three failed marriages, her marriages include high school boyfriend Jimmy Dougherty, professional baseball play Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller (Bond). Monroe is rumored to have been with everyone from Paul Newman, Eddie Fisher and Howard Hughes. Marilyn Monroe’s relationships are the talk of tinsel town, fans want to know who she is involved with.
When people start asking themselves these questions it leads to asking other people these question, and with questions sometimes comes answers. I think the significance of this form of suicide is to get people to notice. I know if it was me in their shoes and I choose to commit suicide, I would want it to be in a way that would make people ask questions. So that maybe someone would ask the right one and be able to help others. Why would they not just hang themselves in the privacy in their homes?