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	Legal views of suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are a number of legal views of suicide.
		However, in some US states, even though suicide has been removed from the criminal code, suicide is still considered an unwritten "common law crime," that is, a crime based on the law of old England as stated in.
		In the Australian state of Victoria, while suicide itself is no longer a crime, a survivor of a suicide pact can be charged with manslaughter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legal_views_of_suicide (252 words)

	Definition of Suicide - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	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)

	ipedia.com: Suicide Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Suicide is more common among alcoholics, especially after loss of affectional relationships, such as the death of a spouse, a divorce, loss of a friend, parental alienation, or being left behind after a friend moves from a shared residence.
		Copycat suicides are defined as duplications of suicides due to repeated accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
		The common means of suicide, roughly in order of use (US), are by gunshot, asphyxia, hanging (there is often considerable overlap between hanging and asphyxia due to lack of expertise), drug overdose, carbon monoxide poisoning, jumping from height, stabbing or exsanguination from cuts, and drowning.
	www.ipedia.com /suicide.html (4071 words)

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		Suicide is any form of self-killing, where self-killing is understood as acting in such a way as to bring about one's own death.
		Suicide is the death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.
		This is a case of suicide because Joe intends to die not to reveal secrets; that is, he views his death as a means to achieve a goal (keeping the secrets), and known means to intended ends are themselves intended.
	www.siue.edu /~evailat/el8.html (1948 words)

	Suicide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		http://www.health.gov.au/hsdd/mentalhe/resources/life/action.htm War is always associated with a steep fall in suicides; for example, during World War I and World War II the rate fell markedly, even in neutral countries.
		Suicide Hotlines Listing of suicide prevention lines in the United States and around the world.
		Ethical and legal considerations in suicide and its prevention
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Suicide.htm (7540 words)

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