The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Wednesday, February 16, 2005  

TOO MANY SUICIDES
One is Too Many, Two is More Than Enough

The Philadelphia papers this week are reporting about two suicides in the area, the latest that of boxer Najai Turpin (see “A ‘Rocky’ Tale Ends in Suicide,” by Jonathan Storm and Frank Fitzpatrick, Feb. 16), and less recently but certainly no less tragic, that of Villanova University professor Mine Ener, about whom Inquirer columnist John Grogan in “Family Tells How Postpartum Illness Overcame Professor” (Feb. 14).

[Post-publication addendum February 17: See also: “TV Dreams Collide with Street Reality,” by Barbara Laker, the Philadelphia Daily News, February 16, and “City Boxer Fatally Shoots Himself,” by Regina Medina, the Philadelphia Daily News, February 15.]

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