Living the Dream: Suicide and My Part in Its Downfall

From his 50th birthday (21st March 1995) until it was wound up (31st March 1997) the author of this book, "Living the Dream: Suicide and My Part in Its Downfall", was the Chief Instructor of Suicide Avoidance and Prevention of the County Surveyors Society founded on Christmas Day, 1066) by William the Conqueror for his Squires of the Shires of England to secure continuous possession of the real estate of England, to claim as his dynastic property and pass on to his heirs and assigns. The Great Book of Winchester, aka, The Domesday Book, the oldest extant legal deed of real estate ownership, in England, provides the evidence that they did, indeed, fulfill that requirement. As it was a Royal Society, its business was subject to the Official Secrets Acts of the United Kingdom 1911-1989, and was not released from them until 25 years had elapsed from the last Act, which was on 12th May 2014. The Suicide Avoidance and Prevention pedagogy of the society was, therefore, officially secret until that date; however, the author had an obligation to promulgate everything he knew about it, to the best of his ability. So he set up a not-for-profit business organization, County Surveyors Society International Limited (England and Wales Registered Number 9109244) Incorporated at Companies House, Cardiff, on 1st July 2014, from which to promulgate this knowledge. Therefore he published an autobiographical trilogy and compendium of his life and work, which went viral in the UK and Globally within a week of its publication, with the result that the Editor in Chief of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, invited him to 'have a voice' on that publication, so he did, with the result that he was invited to broadcast in audio-video format on the cable and satellite news service, CNN. It enabled him to have a conversation with the North American public and ask them what they wanted of him, and they said they wanted a holistic solution to the autie / aspie suicide epidemic there. So he created a course in suicide avoidance and prevention based loosely on the former society's pedagogy, which had remarkable success, and he was invited by Energime University of New York to become their ambassador for students with autism and Asperger's Syndrome and teach them the course. The course and his trilogy and compendium were pitched at a general audience, so he has written this book with these students in mind. It summarizes his life and work, as set out in his trilogy and compendium, and sets out the suicide avoidance and prevention course he has devised. Though aimed at students of High School, College, and University age, with autism and Asperger's Syndrome, as they are highly susceptible to suicide ideations and attempts, it is suitable for anyone who feels suicidal from time to time.