Articles of category "Bullfighting & Suicide"

Comprehensive statistics on bullfighting is difficult to come by, though some revealing figures have been published in several newspapers. The same happens with bullfighting suicide statistics that is not efficiently calculated or featured in the periodicals, while bullfighting suicide incidents actually take place. There is no need to be an expert in suicide statistics to observe some of the cases and to suggest a risky group of unlucky and severely gored matadors and most passionate aficionados.

According to a comprehensive article on Monstrous.com, concerning definitions of death and reviews of such phenomena as a spiritual and physical death, a matador is included in the list of death synonyms along with the other notions, such as an assassin, terrorist, etc. You can rightfully say that bullfighting is an act of suicide that a matador chooses as his life path and career. What makes him deliberately choose to die, when there are so many opportunities to live?