Check out this post by Julie Geng about Adrian Law, an architecture student who committed suicide over winter vacation 2004-2005. What’s interesting about this is the level of “coverup” that appears to have taken place:

I still remember how hard it was to get any kind of information. I approached friends and professors about Law with a simple and harmless question, “Tell me about what Adrian was like,” barely giving any thought to why the kid might have committed suicide. But even with an apparently harmless question as that, the people I approached were scared out of their wits. [...] Law’s professors in architecture refused to speak to me.

I wish I had heard about this last year–I would have been interested in finding out the truth of what happened.

2 Responses to “The Hidden Suicide: Adrian Law”

1. L K Tucker says:

   10/28/2006 at 9:19 pm

   Cornell is unaware of a “conflict of the physiology of sight.” It was discovered when it caused mental breaks for knowledge workers in business offices. The cubicle solved that problem. To this day Cubicle Level Protection designed into Systems Furniture blocks peripheral vision thus preventing exposure to visual Subliminal Distraction,

   Students are knowledge workers and are committing suicide when they unintentionally create the “special circumstances” for exposure then have the expected mental break.

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2. lala132 says:

   6/26/2009 at 8:07 am

   Would really like to read that Julie Geng article, but the link is broken. Where can I find it?

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