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Suicide

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Quotations
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Suicide Quotes
1,322 words, approx. 4 pages
Suicide is the act of killing oneself. Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 See also 4 External links // Sourced The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit to Hell. I remember it as a tiny grove. Now it resembles a forest. Dream; Neil Gaiman ,...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Suicide/Suicidai Behavior Summary
1,229 words, approx. 4 pages
Suicide/Suicidai Behavior Alternative terms: Deliberate self-harm The phenomenon of deliberate self-harm, often with a wish to die. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents, occurring at a rate of 10.8 per 100,000 among 15-19 year...
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Suicide and Substance Abuse Summary
1,206 words, approx. 4 pages
Suicide is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States. Each year 29,000 people take their own lives. About 50 percent of all suicide attempts involve alcohol and illegal drugs (including those who use alcohol or drugs in their attempt or...
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Suicide Summary
1,103 words, approx. 4 pages
While actual reasons for suicide stem from complicated and often indeterminate causes, the public is left to sort out the implications of what Primo Levi calls this "noninstinctive, unnatural choice." In the early part of the twentieth...
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Suicide Summary
18,379 words, approx. 61 pages
SUICIDE—CATASTROPHIC, HEARTBREAKING, and baffling—stands out as a large social issue. The tenth leading cause of death in the United States, suicide is indeed an urgent problem. About eighty people a day kill themselves in this country. That...
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Suicide Information
6,794 words, approx. 23 pages
Suicide (Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally terminating one's own life. Suicide occurs for any number of reasons, often relating to depression, substance abuse, shame, avoiding pain, financial difficulties or other...
 


News and Journals
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Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
Suicide
01/01/2005: 632 words, approx. 2 pages
Suicide Suicide in Children and Adolescents. Robert A King, Alan Apter, editors. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press; 2003. 320 p. US$65.00. Reviewer rating: Good This book is part of a Cambridge University Press series related to child and adolescent psychiatry. Targeting both...
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MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Suicide and Attempted Suicide
06/11/2004: 308 words, approx. 1 pages
Suicide is the 13th leading cause of death worldwide, the 11th in the United States (1), and the third among U.S. residents aged 10-24 years, accounting for 4,243 (11.7%) of all deaths in this age group. Suicide attempts and other acts of self harm...
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AP News
Incarcerated prosecutor commits suicide
10/6/2007: 431 words, approx. 1 pages
A federal prosecutor from Florida accused of flying to Detroit last month to molest a 5-year-old girl committed suicide in his cell Friday in federal prison, authorities said.Assistant U.S. Attorney John D.R. Atchison was found unresponsive, taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, said Felicia...
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AP News
Guantanamo detainee threatens suicide
5/21/2007: 497 words, approx. 2 pages
A detainee at Guantanamo Bay who has repeatedly attempted suicide warned in a letter released Sunday that he still hoped to kill himself out of despair over his confinement and conditions at the U.S. military prison in Cuba.Juma Mohammed Al-Dossary said he would prefer death...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Viewpoint on Suicide
59,034 words, approx. 197 pages
“Sometimes the most difficult thing in the world is to choose to endure life.” Edwin S. Shneidman, The Suicidal Mind,1996 In May 1996, the U.S. Navy’s top admiral, Jeremy “Mike” Boorda, committed suicide when he learned...
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Viewpoint on Suicide
50,122 words, approx. 167 pages
Suicide is a serious problem that is becoming a national crisis. In 1997, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 30,535 Americans committed suicide. This is equivalent to one person every 17.2 minutes, making suicide the eighth leading...
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
Suicidal Thoughts
1,805 words, approx. 6 pages
This is a look at the reasons and results of suicide.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Suicide and Suicide Assistance
1,336 words, approx. 5 pages
The following is a research report on the history of suicide.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Suicide
873 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the issue of suicide, especially as it relates to young people 15-24 years of age. Provides statistical detail. Outlines the four stages of depression.


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