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In the last 10 years or so my psyche has been caught up in a distinction-which I felt was expressed in your film-between the certainty of suicide and the uncertainty of suicidal ideation, which is a sort of gravitational field around the event of death, the death horizon if you will, which many people-survivors especially-are bound to as if to a gravitational field.

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The process or the act of forming ideas. There is in it [the will] an element of conception, ideation, or intellectual retentiveness. A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 352.

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The first year is about ideation, about coming up with bad ideas and letting other people explain to you why they are bad, and how they can be better. — The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Suicidal behavior (ideation, attempts and suicides) occurred in 2\% of all patients during treatment or during follow-up after treatment cessation. — BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories
Suicidal ideation was the only significant factor associated with HIV infection.
In the last 10 years or so my psyche has been caught up in a distinction-which I felt was expressed in your film-between the certainty of suicide and the uncertainty of suicidal ideation, which is a sort of gravitational field around the event of death, the death horizon if you will, which many people-survivors especially-are bound to as if to a gravitational field. — SF360
If they no longer express suicidal ideation, they are bumped down to MHS (15 minute interval guard checks) for — reddit.com: what's new online!