“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...
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...
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...
Suicide What role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? Is suicide wrong, always wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Or is it almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Or is it sometimes morally permissible? Is it not intrinsically...
SUICIDE. The topic of religiously motivated suicide is a complex one. Several of the major religious traditions reject suicide as a religiously justifiable act but commend martyrdom; among them are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These religions...
To many people, suicide—intentional self-murder—is an asocial act of a private individual, yet sociology grew out of Durkheim's argument ([1897] 1951) that suicide rates are social facts and reflect variation in social regulation...
With 29,000 annual victims, SUICIDE is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Alcohol and illicit drugs are involved in about 50 percent of all suicide attempts. About 25 percent of completed suicides occur among alcoholics and drug...
Each year an estimated thirty thousand Americans commit suicide. Several years ago, the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center profiled those individuals at greatest risk for suicide as elderly white males with either symptoms or a medical diagnosis of...
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...
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...
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...
The term suicide refers to the death of a person that is the result of behaviour undertaken by that person in the knowledge or expectation of that result. Some forms of suicide are direct, such as hanging or shooting oneself. Other forms are indirect,...
Suicide is a major public health problem for China that is only gradually being recognized. During the period from 1995 to 1999, there were an estimated 287,000 suicides each year, which makes suicide the fifth most important cause of death in the...
Suicide—intentional, self-inflicted death—is markedly patterned by gender, with the number of males killing themselves several times greater than that of females in most countries. Men talk and think about suicide (suicidal ideation) and...
The deliberate taking of one’s own life. Suicide is a significant public-health problem, and while there are geographic and cultural variations in rates, suicide represents one of the top 10 causes of death in all age groups in most countries....
According to Bst. doctrine a man cannot avoid suffering by taking his life, nor does he escape from the ‘Wheel of Life’ by so doing. The destruction of the physical body merely transfers the entity to other spheres of existence, and rebirth...
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...
