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Joelle's mother's garbage-disposal suicide

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pivotal · 24 Nov YTMP, evening

  • When: Thanksgiving evening, 24 Nov YTMP (2003)
  • What: Per Notkin, Joelle's despondent mother — freed of her denial-system — later that evening fed first one arm and then the other into an ordinary kitchen garbage disposal, dying of the suicide; Notkin notes the kitchen-appliance rhyme with the Auteur's own microwave death without drawing conclusions.