Post by Logan on Jan 17, 2016 2:56:02 GMT -6
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO — Hunter S. Thompson's 2005 suicide attracted media and celebrity attention, some of it almost fawning over his decision to end his life before age and disease turned him into just another depleted old man.
At least that's the view of Colorado State University psychology professor Silvia Sara Canetto, who has studied the cultural links to suicide for more than 30 years. She says Thompson — who fatally shot himself at age 67 at his Woody Creek home in Colorado — was sticking by a manly code that kills older white men more than other demographic groups in America.
"The script suggests that suicide and masculinity is accepted," said Canetto. "That real men kill themselves and not put up with aging."
Canetto recently laid out her conclusions about why older white men have higher suicide rates than those of older men of African, Latino or indigenous descent — or of older women across ethnicities — in the journal " Men and Masculinities."
Continue reading at www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29394960/old-white-men-stick-societys-suicide-script .
At least that's the view of Colorado State University psychology professor Silvia Sara Canetto, who has studied the cultural links to suicide for more than 30 years. She says Thompson — who fatally shot himself at age 67 at his Woody Creek home in Colorado — was sticking by a manly code that kills older white men more than other demographic groups in America.
"The script suggests that suicide and masculinity is accepted," said Canetto. "That real men kill themselves and not put up with aging."
Canetto recently laid out her conclusions about why older white men have higher suicide rates than those of older men of African, Latino or indigenous descent — or of older women across ethnicities — in the journal " Men and Masculinities."
Continue reading at www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29394960/old-white-men-stick-societys-suicide-script .
