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I took the time to research this case. I would like to present this case with great respect to Mitchell and his family.
History
On September 18, 2010, a young man named Mitchell Heisman, a thirty-five-year-old psychology graduate, walked into Harvard's Memorial Church on Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy holiday, and shot himself in the head.
The breaking point was the death of Mitchell's father.
Note
He left a suicide note of 1,905 pages, with 1,433 footnotes and 20 pages of bibliography. The book consists of a prologue and two parts in which Heisman equates God with technology and analyzes how liberal democracy leads to the self-destruction of the human race. includes more than 1,700 references to God and up to 200 references to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche". There are also references to Schoenberg, Darwin, futurist Ray Kurzweil and biologist E. O. Wilson.
After five years of working on the lengthy letter, Heisman's family and close associates received the document in the mail.
What is note about according to Mitchell
"Every word, every thought and every emotion comes back to the same central problem: life is meaningless. I want to emphasize that the central issue of this text is not biology, race, or technology, but nihilism. This experiment in nihilism consists in seeking out and exposing every illusion and every myth, wherever it leads us, no matter what the consequences, even if it means our own death"
His mother's words after the death of Mitchell
"He was a most healthy young man, never having shown any depressive inclinations. He was just a rather reserved boy, absorbed in recent times, mind you, by what he cited as academic work "on the history of the Norman Conquest of England" "He was very cordial, charming, I would never have thought anything was wrong. He often told me he loved me and had recently visited me to help me prepare for a move. [...] I'm still in shock and can't understand how he could have hidden this. He had everything going for him. He was in perfect health. He was handsome, intelligent, a good person. I will never understand."
Mitchell's last will
According to Heisman's own mother, the student's last wish was that everyone should read this text.
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History
On September 18, 2010, a young man named Mitchell Heisman, a thirty-five-year-old psychology graduate, walked into Harvard's Memorial Church on Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy holiday, and shot himself in the head.
The breaking point was the death of Mitchell's father.
Note
He left a suicide note of 1,905 pages, with 1,433 footnotes and 20 pages of bibliography. The book consists of a prologue and two parts in which Heisman equates God with technology and analyzes how liberal democracy leads to the self-destruction of the human race. includes more than 1,700 references to God and up to 200 references to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche". There are also references to Schoenberg, Darwin, futurist Ray Kurzweil and biologist E. O. Wilson.
After five years of working on the lengthy letter, Heisman's family and close associates received the document in the mail.
What is note about according to Mitchell
"Every word, every thought and every emotion comes back to the same central problem: life is meaningless. I want to emphasize that the central issue of this text is not biology, race, or technology, but nihilism. This experiment in nihilism consists in seeking out and exposing every illusion and every myth, wherever it leads us, no matter what the consequences, even if it means our own death"
His mother's words after the death of Mitchell
"He was a most healthy young man, never having shown any depressive inclinations. He was just a rather reserved boy, absorbed in recent times, mind you, by what he cited as academic work "on the history of the Norman Conquest of England" "He was very cordial, charming, I would never have thought anything was wrong. He often told me he loved me and had recently visited me to help me prepare for a move. [...] I'm still in shock and can't understand how he could have hidden this. He had everything going for him. He was in perfect health. He was handsome, intelligent, a good person. I will never understand."
Mitchell's last will
According to Heisman's own mother, the student's last wish was that everyone should read this text.
