Is anybody here familiar with this issue?... challenged therapists to view thoughts of death not as symptoms to be cured but more as philosophical longings to be explored and understood.
I'm thinking of suicidal ideation, but also interest in horror stories & ~ movies, as far as it is characterized by identification with the victim, rather than offender - committing suicide *symbolically*, as it were, by "enjoying" this kind of stories by way of identifying with the victim.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/healt ... at-85.html