Author Iris Chang found dead (1 Viewer)

[SteveGon]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/nationa...bit041111.html

What a shame. :frowning: FWIW, her book The Rape of Nanking is highly recommended.

 

[Max Leung]

What the? No way, I can't believe it.

Blah.

 

[Danny Tse]

It's pretty big news here in the Bay Area. And so young too :frowning: Apparently she has been suffering from depression for the past couple of years.

I read "Rape of Nanjing" and I will second the recommendation. I believe the book is banned in Japan.

 

[Patrick_L]

it's hard to feel bad for someone who's putting their families through so much pain.


r.i.p. though.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I think most people who commit suicide are often in too much pain to think of anyone else. They are very sick people who commit their final act out of desperation.

 

[Max Leung]

Considering the subject matter of "Rape of Nanking" and another incident mentioned in this (long) interview ( http://www.identitytheory.com/interv...rnbaum109.html ), I wonder if those events were a trigger for her depression (or made it worse). But I guess we'll never know.

No matter...it is still sad.

 

[Henry Gale]

Max, that's what I was thinking.

Thae horrors she researched for that book are beyond comprehension.