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Topic: Philosophical views of suicide


  
  Suicide - Enpsychlopedia
Suicide is frequently highly stigmatized, and those experiencing suicidal ideation struggle to be heard and understood.
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.
enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Suicide   (2124 words)

  
 sociology - 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.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Suicide   (7236 words)

  
 More on Suicide
A suicidal act that does not end in death is commonly called a "suicide attempt" or a "suicidal gesture." In the technical literature people prefer the use of the neologism parasuicide, or describe such acts as "deliberate self-harm" (DSH) – both of these terms avoid the question of the intent of the action.
Increasingly, the term commit suicide is being consciously avoided, as it implies that suicide is a crime by equating it with other acts that are committed, such as murder or burglary.
Philosophical thinking in the 19th and 20th century has led, in some cases, beyond thinking in terms of pro-choice, to the point that suicide is no longer a last resort, or even something that one must justify, but something that one must justify not doing.
www.psyhist.com /suicide.htm   (6125 words)

  
 SEP: 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   (8773 words)

  
 More on Suicidal
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The Kaiowas tribe in the South American rainforest committed a mass suicide in protest of a government that was taking away their land and beliefs.
people who used to be suicidal get their gun rights back
www.psyhist.com /suicidal.htm   (6281 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/suicide.htm   (2641 words)

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