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advisor
Jansen, Monique
advisor
Charlton, James
author
Chapman, Paul Steven
2008-04-18T01:14:50Z
2008-04-18T01:14:50Z
2007
https://hdl.handle.net/10292/171
This explorative research examines a contemporary representation for suicide. Utilizing a dualistic framework of biology and technology, I codify diverse theoretical discourses into why people commit suicide. My practical research then merges opposing binaries of 'fact' (the need to understand) within 'fiction' (the need to tell narratives). In context of this study a person who has taken their own life is the 'author' and the researcher is the 'reader' of this event ‐ I investigate how the reader imposes their own narrative upon the author.
Suicide
Life
Contemporary
Technology
Narrative
Framework
Heavens Gate
The Merging of Fact and Fiction Binaries Within Suicide
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