Wish I’d had this map when I was working on this week’s feature. Thanks to William Kleindl, a PhD student at the University of Montana, for sending it along.
(And they use the term felo de se (“felon of himself”) instead of suicide. That’s a part of the history I didn’t get into in the feature—how old governments would punish suicides by confiscating their property [instead of handing it down to their heirs] and publicly mangling their bodies to humiliate the families.)
So, if you’re depressed, stay the fuck out of downtown.
We need to build a fence around downtown.
Now I’ve got “Felo de se! What’s a felo de se? It’s what you oughtn’t to do but you do anyway” stuck in my head.
Let’s change the city slogan from “Metronatural”
to “City of Last Resort”.
Apparently, Pioneer Square, Skid Road, and the I.D. had the highest rates of male occupancy and suicide. There were a lot of boarding houses and cheap residence hotels there, back in the day.
Interesting too that the CD had a very low suicide rate, even though it was pretty densely populated in the 30s and 40s compared to many other neighborhoods.
They must have been stepping over corpses in downtown back then.
Apparently they were mutilating corpses as punishment. What makes me think it smells like religious involvement? Oh, I know, it’s totally fucking irrational.
See, it’s not the Aurora Bridge that’s the problem, it’s those depressive Queen Anne people that can’t be bothered to off themselves at Seattle Center.
killing your self in green lake? gross.
Man, Eastlake sucked back then just like it sucks now.