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	Suicide - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		According to stricter definitions of suicide, to be considered suicide, the death must be a central component and intention of the act, not just a certain consequence; hence, suicide bombing is considered a kind of bombing rather than a kind of suicide, and martyrdom usually escapes religious or legal proscription.
		Suicide is more common among alcoholics, especially after loss of intimate relationships, such as the death of a spouse, divorce, loss of a friend and parental alienation.
		Ulrike Meinhof wrote that "suicide is the ultimate form of protest." In this she saw suicide as a political act, as a last resort to preserve one's sovereignty over one's body and life.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Suicide (7627 words)

	Cultural views of suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the latter cases, it was viewed as an honorable way to escape shame – especially because the repercussions of shame typically fell not merely on the individual, but to an immense degree upon the individual's extended family.
		Suicide was also glamorised by popular stories among the people, in which lovers unable to be together in life because of various reasons, were joined together in death.
		During the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976), numerous publicly-known figures, especially intellectuals and writers, are reported to have commited suicide, typically to escape persecution, typically at the hands of the Red Guards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_views_of_suicide (847 words)

	Suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suicide is viewed in highly varying ways among the cultures, religions, legal and social systems of the world.
		Suicidal patients in mental hospitals may be temporarily bound, placed in padded rooms, or incapacitated with drugs to limit access to means of suicide.
		The radical view would be that in countries with extremely high suicide rates, a suicide may reflect the psychological problems of the whole society rather than the problems of that particular individual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legal_Religious_and_Cultural_Views_on_Suicide (2047 words)

	Suicide
		Suicide was of central concern for the twentieth century existentialists, who saw the choice to take one's life as impressed upon us by our experience of the absurdity or meaninglessness of the world and of human endeavor.
		Suicide is, according to Sartre, an opportunity to stake out our understanding of our essence as individuals in a godless world For the existentialists, suicide was not a choice shaped mainly by moral considerations but by concerns about the individual as the sole source of meaning in a meaningless universe.
		On this view, an individual and the society in which she lives stand in a reciprocal relationship such that in exchange for the goods the society has provided to the individual, the individual must continue to live in order to provide her society with the goods that relationship demands.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/suicide (8796 words)

	Free Essay IB: What makes suicide acceptable? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Acceptability of suicide, however, is not fully dependent on those who view it; the suicide victim also forms justifications for his suicide based on that which society presents to him.
		Acceptance of suicide in the United States is a combination of former perceptions of suicide, the perceptions of the various cultures which make up the United States, that which is considered "normal", and the circumstances under which the suicide is committed.
		Suicide, as is most frequently committed among adolescents, is more familiar to them than it is to their elder counterparts.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25744 (4058 words)

	Suicide note - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		A suicide note is a message left by someone who later attempts or commits suicide.
		Physical reminder - The suicide note could serve as a physical reminder of the suicide or could be constantly contemplated by those who read it, increasing their grief.
		His suicide letter is particularly noteworthy, as many claim it not to be a suicide note at all, but rather a letter to his fans explaining why he wished to leave the music industry and quit Nirvana.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Suicide_note (719 words)

	Suicide: Causes and Clinical Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Usually, an operational distinction is drawn between suicide as a consequence of preexisting psychiatric illness, and suicide as a resolution of an existential dilemma or a response to a precipitating experience in the absence of a history of psychiatric disturbance.
		Suicidal ideation in most cases is not accompanied by a suicide attempt, but almost all suicides had thought of suicide previously and usually communicated their intentions directly or indirectly.
		Suicide risk is greater in men, with older age, after previous attempts, in a current depressive or dysphoric-agitated state, after onset of psychiatric illness in youth, and with a poor treatment-response.
	www.medceu.com /course-no-test.cfm?CID=1183 (12281 words)

	Suicide Facts, Studying Suicide, Sociology, Psychiatry, And Biology
		In a sense it's the same with suicide." Those spinning sevens represent all the biological, sociological, psychological, and existential variables that are associated with suicide, broken family, locus of control, decreased serotonin [a chemical found in the brain], triggering event, and so on.
		In two investigations of suicide among twins, the identical twin of a suicide also killed himself in 19 percent of the cases (22 out of 118), while there were no instances (0 out of 254) where the fraternal [non-identical] twin of a suicide had done so.
		In addition, the association of suicide with mental illness or alcoholism does not mean that suicide cannot be rational: chronically depressed, alcoholic, or schizophrenic persons may decide that it is better to be dead than to continue living as they are.
	www.a1b2c3.com /suilodge/facstu1.htm (3324 words)

	Chinese Cultural Studies: Concise Political History of China
		The idea of cultural imperialism was extended to art and literature, which henceforth were to serve the people, the class struggle, and the revolution.
		The Cultural Revolution had its roots in a power struggle between Mao and his supporters, including his wife, Jiang Qing, and Lin Biao--who believed that the initial fervor of the revolution was being lost--and more conservative, bureaucratic elements within the leadership.
		During the Cultural Revolution radical Maoists condemned him as a bourgeois "freak." In 1973 he was rehabilitated under Zhou, and, as the most senior vice-premier, became the effective head of the government during Zhou's later illness.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /core9/phalsall/texts/chinhist.html (16949 words)

	Swans Commentary: The Insurgent Word: Suicide, by Gerard Donnelly Smith - gsmith54
		In all countries, suicide is now one of the three leaning causes of death among people aged 15-34." One million a year, give or take a few drownings that might have been accidental.
		Instead of being unable to regenerate his or her body on judgment day as the Christian suicide, the jihadist suicide bomber believes his body remains whole in paradise where he will be given pleasure by many virgins.
		Since suicide is against Islamic Law, (5) and since killing is prohibited by the Christian Sixth Commandment, (6) those who believe in jihad and those who believe in the Rapture should both follow the law.
	www.swans.com /library/art11/gsmith54.html (1141 words)

	Cultural Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Briefly stated, the legalization of this illegal alien population amounts to American cultural suicide (because it is done intentionally, rather than by accident) and a political disaster.
		The politically-correct "cultural diversity" encountered by the newly-arrived neighbor is designed never to be penetrated by any element of the religious, individualist, even (by today’s standards) libertarian culture that greeted my grandfather when he got off the boat from Ireland.
		Our "American Culture" was dominated by "The Enlightenment" which placed individual liberty into the realm of "God Given".....(Join "Christian" and "Reason")..literally placing the reins of government firmly in the hands of the people; as represented by the responsible individual and the rule of law, and as opposed to any institution, religious or secular.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/727165/posts (8911 words)

	Jots :: suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Filed under buddhism, protest, suicide, vietnam by birty
		Filed under culture, suicide, wiki, wikipedia by birty
		Filed under author, funeral, hunter.thompson, johnny.depp, suicide by birty
	jots.com /tags/suicide (425 words)

	Suicide
		An introduction to the conspiratorial view of the King assassination.
		Was his "suicide note" a good-bye letter to the world, or just the music business?
		The Foster suicide has been investigated up one side and down the other.
	www.nmia.com /~bobpace/suicide1.htm (3462 words)

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