{"id":2544,"date":"2014-01-09T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T18:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2014-01-09T13:46:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T18:46:19","slug":"suicide-and-the-impure-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/2014\/01\/09\/suicide-and-the-impure-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide and the &#8216;Impure&#8217; Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cdl\/files\/2014\/01\/Suicideimage-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Suicideimage\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2545\" \/>New research says moral bias against suicide often comes from disgust over a tainted soul.<\/p>\n<p>MATTHEW HUTSON<br \/>\nAround the world, about one million people die of suicide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Each death causes immeasurable harm: Friends, family members, and coworkers suffer loss, guilt, and confusion, and the immediate victim loses a future. Many of those friends and family members consider suicide to be morally wrong. But new evidence shows that people who consider suicide wrong<\/p>\n<p>might have other reasons than the harm it brings. There is a more abstract\u2014and at the same time more visceral\u2014consideration at play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/01\/suicide-and-the-impure-soul\/282845\/\">Click here <\/a>to read the full article in The Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research says moral bias against suicide often comes from disgust over a tainted soul. MATTHEW HUTSON Around the world, about one million people die of suicide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Each death causes immeasurable harm: Friends, family members, and coworkers suffer loss, guilt, and confusion, and the immediate victim loses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6928,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[216,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6928"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}