I’ve just cleaned out my mailbox after being on the road for six weeks, and a bundle of magazines and review copies of travel related books now sit in a stack awaiting my attention.
I’ve already torn through a couple of magazines, though, and encountered one article that gave me pause for a couple of reasons.
In the May 19 issue of New York magazine, writer Phil Zabriskie pondered “The Mysteries of the Suicide Tourist.” According to Zabriskie, while New York has one of the lowest suicide rates among big cities in the U.S., it is as attractive to “suicide tourists” as it is to Empire State Building and Times Square gawkers with cameras around their necks.