The Varieties of Suicidal ExperiencePROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social Work Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for suicide: lives led in isolation, intense personal suffering, disaffection, and struggle. Letters detailing why they did what they did paint pictures