To Know Suicide- Depression Can Be Treated, but It Takes Competence
BALTIMORE — WHEN the American artist Ralph Barton killed himself in 1931 he left behind a suicide note explaining why, in the midst of a seemingly good and full life, he had chosen to die. “Everyone who has known me and who hears of this,” he wrote, “will have a different hypothesis to offer to explain why I did it. ” Most of the explanations, about problems in his life, would be completely wrong, he predicted.