do final deposition
available in this case recorda the coNVI between Liu and his mother early in the morning of Tuesday, July 26,
less than 30 minutes before his death.
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Mother:
Mr. Liu: Mother:
(holding Mr. Liu's nose)
(joking) I'm a big nose!
Big nose!
Would you like me to prepar
Mr. Liut, I only want bread.
Mother:
Mr. Liu:
Mother:
I'll go buy it.
No.
I'll go myself.
(gives her son $2 for bread)
It reads:
you some eggs for breakfast?
:
Mr. Liu's sister reports that this interchange was quite normal. Liu normally would not want his hard-working mother to spend time
Also, he will preparing lunch for him, and he will just take bread.
prefer to do such chores as going downstairs to purchase food, relieving his mother from the chore.
From this deposition, it appears that Mr. Liu's behavior shortly
There is no indication of depression. before his death was normal.
His attitude, in fact, was light-hearted
or emotional turmoil.
as it usually was,
Thus, there seems to be no evidence for temporary psychosis that
Purthermore, the long-term analysis could lead to a suicidal action.
of character structure reveals no suicidal tendencies in the personality. Analyzing the environmental conditions (economic,
but interpersonal, career) one finds some pressures at work; otherwise, Mr. Liu's environment was quite positive, and he was
a young man who would fulfill himself in the challenge of a difficult assignment.
A. Kobler and E. Stotland (The End of Hope,
Free Press, 1964)
summarized their extensive investigation of suicides and suicide attempts by writing:
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