hitchhiking to the final destination
i have temporarily lost my will to live. until i am able to recover it, my posting frequency will be rather low. but now, for your enjoyment, here are some facts about suicide in vienna :
austria currently ranks 14th in the who’s global suicide statistics, and is a close second to belgium in western europe. vienna is number 3 in the world, after tokio and budapest. suicide is so big here that the austrian information service aeiou even has it’s own meta-category for it.
every year, about 1000 people in vienna commit suicide, two thirds of them are male, which is in line with the global trend (only china sees more female than male suicides.) famous austrians who killed themselves were cabaret artist egon fridell, writers stefan zweig, paul celan and jean améry, archduke rudolf, painter carl moll and scientist ludwig boltzmann.
before someone asks, no, i am not planning to “drah mi ham” (vienese for suicide), but i stumbled upon this vienna-related entry in a suicide blog. seems there are blogs for everything these days.
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die neubauten haben ebenfalls vor ein paar monaten die schöne morbidität und die todessehnsucht dieser stadt gelobt :-)
um nicht zu vergessen: franz innerhofer.
à pro pos “drah mi ham”: aren’t there an almost surprising number of idioms for dying in the viennese dialect? maybe someone in the know could write some up? IIRC there was something with ‘potschn’? oh, and ‘bankerl reißn’. what else?
so, what’s the most kreative way to comit suicide? if you see the whole thing as a performance.
ambre: maybe “Die Potschn streckn’”? Ins Gras bei