codewritingcow / suicide-notes

A collection of people's suicide notes

Suicide Notes

A collection of people's suicide notes. This is a companion to my other project, "Their Last Words."

Contribute

Making a contribution is easy:

• Fork the repo.
• Add a JSON file with the person's suicide note and brief biography. See specs below.
• Check other pull requests to make sure you aren't submitting duplicates.
• Make a pull request.

Specs

File Name

Each person's suicide note is stored in a JSON file inside collection/. Name the JSON file like this:

collection/{lastname-firstname}.json:

If the person has a middle name, then name the file like this: {lastname-firstname-middlename}.json:

File Structure

Use this structure for the JSON file.

{
	"lastName": "",
	"firstName": "", // If person has a middle name, include it here
	"suicideNote": "",
	"translation": "", // If suicide note is in a non-English language, include English translation
	"biography": "", // One-sentence biography
	"born": "", // YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY. If date is unknown, omit this.
	"died": "", // YYYY-MM-DD or YYYT. See note above.
	"suicideMethod": "" // Suicide method
}

If the person's last words were in English, translation can be omitted from the file.

Note: Please remove comments from your JSON files. JSON doesn't allow comments. The comments in the template above are for illustrative purposes only.

Example

collections/cheung-leslie.json

{
	"lastName": "Cheung",
	"firstName": "Leslie",
	"suicideNote": "Depression!! 多謝各位朋友，多謝麥列菲菲教授。 一年來很辛苦，不能再忍受，多謝唐先生，多謝家人，多謝肥姐。 我一生冇做壞事，為何這樣？？？ - Leslie",
	"translation": "Depression! Many thanks to all my friends. Many thanks to Professor Felice Lieh-Mak. This year has been so tough. I can't stand it anymore. Many thanks to Mr. Tong. Many thanks to my family. Many thanks to Sister Fei. In my life I have done nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?",
	"biography": "Hong Kong singer and actor",
	"born": "1956-09-12",
	"died": "2003-04-01",
	"suicideMethod": "Jumped off building"
}

suicide-notes's Issues

Add place of death

Add each person's place of death, if known. Let's call it "placeOfDeath".

Use town or city, followed by country. Or if they died in an ocean or a mountain, let's use the name of the geographical location.

For example, Mishima Yukio killed himself in Tokyo, Japan. So it'd be "placeOfDeath": "Tokyo, Japan"

Move quotes to database

Add photo of each person

Build API for accessing quotes

Add suicide notes

Add suicide notes to collection

Add function for analyzing sentiments

Install code library for analyzing the sentiments of someone's words. npm install sentiment

Add estimated reading time

Show estimated reading time for each suicide note. Just like for articles on medium.com. Let's use an NPM code module for this.

Build front-end site for accessing API