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	Suicide Rates Encyclopedia Article @ Ordinarily.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Suicide or attempted suicide as a means of effecting social or political change is related to martyrdom.
		Suicidal attacks by pilots were common in the 20th century: the attack by U.S. torpedo planes at the Battle of Midway was very similar to a kamikaze attack.
		Some see suicide as a legitimate matter of personal choice and a human right (colloquially known as the right to die movement), and maintain that no one should be forced to suffer against their will, particularly from conditions such as incurable disease, mental illness, and old age that have no possibility of improvement.
	www.ordinarily.net /encyclopedia/Suicide_rates (3915 words)

	Death: Suicide
		The Japanese samurai warrior committing seppuku (a ritual suicide under the warrior code known as Bushido), the Native American dog soldier or the Aztec soldier throwing himself on his enemy in order to attain the "Flower Death", each held the promise of a reward to carry them through their grim ordeal.
		Perhaps suicide is a form of psychological selection, where those who lack the mental facilities to embrace some sort of faith in light of life's failings are kept from producing offspring with similar traits.
		Suicide is the ninth leading cause of death in the US, with 31,204 deaths recorded in 1995, or about one every seventeen minutes.
	library.thinkquest.org /16665/suicide.htm (1548 words)

	Ritual suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ritual suicide is the act of suicide motivated by a religious, spiritual, or traditional ritual.
		Other rituals of self-immolation or self-starvation were used by Hindu, Jain and Buddhist monks for religious or philosophical purposes, or as a form of extreme non-violent protest.
		In Japan, rituals of suicide like seppuku were practiced.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ritual_suicide (138 words)

	Seppuku
		The suicide candidate was clad in a white kimono.
		Suicide was often committed by samurai warriors and noblemen on the battlefield.
		The most common form was probably the suicide in the battlefield to avoid the shame of falling into the hands of the enemy.
	www.artelino.com /articles/seppuku.asp (1104 words)

	Suicide Encyclopedia Article @ Disconcerted.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A suicidal individual who lacks the physical capacity to take their own life may enlist someone else to carry out the act on their behalf, frequently a family member or physician.
		Also, it could be argued that it is an action of military suicide to 'sit on a grenade', the action of throwing oneself onto a grenade, hoping to shield one's platoon from the shrapnel and/or explosion but most certainly losing one's own life in the process.
		Critics may argue that suicidal impulses are inherently products of mental illness and therefore not a valid exercise of rational self-interest, and that because of the gravity and irreversibility of the decision to take one's life it is more prudent for society to err on the side of caution and protect suicidal individuals from themselves.
	www.disconcerted.org /encyclopedia/Suicide (3242 words)

	Copycat suicide
		A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
		Publishing the means of suicides, romanticized and sensationalized reporting, particularly about celebrities, suggestions that there is an epidemic, glorifying the deceased and simplifying the reasons all lead to increases in the suicide rate.
		Over 90 percent of suicide victims have a significant psychiatric illness at the time of their death with mood disorders and substance abuse being the two most common.
	www.mrsci.com /Psychiatry/Copycat_suicide.php (933 words)

	Nogi
		Suicides in the texts of modern Japanese literature, according to Alan Wolfe in his essay "From Seppuku to Jisatsu: Suicide as a National Allegory," take on two distinctive forms.
		Seppuku is a ritual death rite with an ancient history in Japanese culture.
		Both seppuku and jisatsu are two differing suicide forms separated by motive and process, yet the distinction between the two is unclear due to anachronistic persuasions caused by conflict between modernization and the legacy of the Emperor.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/nogi.html (1096 words)

	Euthanasia and Buddhism - ReligionFacts
		The reasons for a samurai's suicide were either (1) to avoid an inevitable death at the hands of others, or (2) to escape a longer period of unbearable pain or psychological misery, without being an active, fruitful member of society.
		Suicide or destruction of life being viewed as an evil act in itself, such a termination of life to terminate pain and suffering at this end would entail payment for it hereafter with interest compounded to it.
		Wiltshire 1983, 134, cited in Struan Hellier, "Suicide and Buddhism," 2003.
	www.religionfacts.com /euthanasia/buddhism.htm (2999 words)

	Assisted Suicide
		While suicide is no longer a crime – and where it is because of a failure to update the law it is not enforced – assistance remains a crime almost everywhere by some statute or other.
		Alex Maxwell had pleaded guilty to 'aiding and abetting' the suicide of his terminally ill wife, actions that the judge said were motivated by compassion, love, and humanity and thus did not deserve imprisonment.
		The strongest indication that the Western world is moving gradually to allow assisted suicide for the dying and the incurable rather than to permitting voluntary euthanasia comes from a huge survey that the Council of Europe did in 2002.
	www.assistedsuicide.org /suicide_laws.html (2582 words)

	Suicidal Attraction of the Golden Gate Bridge: Archetypal Gateway to the Other Side
		While it may be true that some of the suicides are the result of lost innocence and disappointment, it still does not explain the numerous stories of those who came from around the world for the sole purpose of ending their life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.
		Courts have even been known to punish the survivors of suicide by confiscating the possessions of the deceased, who were of course conveniently not able to stand trial.
		With the exception of a few instances such as assisted suicide, it is virtually impossible to support the intentions of a suicidal person, which merely reinforces their need to act alone.
	www.mythicarts.com /writing/Golden_Gate_Bridge.htm (2643 words)

	UB Reporter: Suicide is topic of video blog
		Although the imagery is specific to a particular event, the rituals are minimalist in form, leaving room for whatever the viewer brings to the experience.
		"Ritual is the re-enactment of a myth," says Barr, "and my brother's suicide is, for me, in some sense, a myth.
		If the sounds of life in the background alter the ritual meaning of the performance (contradicting the suggestion of metaphysical isolation), the rituals themselves have changed the artist.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol37/vol37n17/articles/BarrSuicide.html (816 words)

	suicide
		According to 1992 figures, the highest incidence of suicide was among men aged 40-59---mostly motivated by financial or job-related stress, alcoholism, and physical illness---while for women, those 65 and older committed suicide more often, reportedly as a result of the suffering caused by physical illness or alcoholism.
		Also, in the case of the junior high school boy's suicide, his father initially said his son was the victim of school bullying, but then, when the principal denied the existence of any bully in his school, the father went along with him and blamed me instead.
		Similarly, shinju, or double suicide, was another glorified show of responsibility; written in characters that mean "the inside of the heart," shinju served as a completion of love for those lovers kept apart by unyielding social obligations, since only by joint suicide could they evoke an eternity of ecstatic union.
	www.snakelyone.com /SUICIDE.htm (3049 words)

	Order of the Solar Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their fiery ritual murder-suicides are meant to take members of the sect to a new world on the star "Sirius." To assist with the trip, several of the victims, including some children, are shot in the head, asphyxiated with fl plastic bags and/or poisoned.
		Unlike earlier suicides in which adults killed their children, the three teen-age children of the cultist couple were spared.
		Apparently the teen-agers woke up the day before the suicide to discover their parents and their cultist friend had placed propane tanks, electric hot plates and fire-starters on the main floor of the two-story house and were trying to burn down the place.
	www.angelfire.com /oz/uv/solar (615 words)

	Guardian \| Swiss millionaire dies in apparent ritual suicide
		The man, aged 49 and identified only as JHM, was discovered late on Tuesday night in an annexe to his mansion in Alhaur'n de la Torre, a town ringed by olive groves 11 miles from Malaga.
		Police officers who examined the scene suspected suicide, as did the doctor who performed the autopsy, but the case remains open pending a full investigation.
		The millionaire's most recent journeys were to Canada and Hong Kong, but detectives are expected to focus on his experiences in Japan, where the practice of hara-kiri was once viewed as an honourable form of suicide.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4420305-103681,00.html (437 words)

	Japan's Chilling Internet Suicide Pacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The suicide pacts, which have resulted in at least 18 deaths since February, are shocking to experts, even in a nation plagued by an astronomical suicide rate.
		The Japanese government started funding suicide awareness programs and issued a booklet to corporations to be on the lookout for danger signs among employees and called on companies to offer counseling.
		In trying to explain Japan's high suicide rate, it's hard to ignore the influence of the samurai tradition, which glamorizes suicide as a warrior's way to honorably escape from death at the hands of an enemy - or to escape disgrace.
	suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org /japanchill.html (1580 words)

	Seppuku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hideyoshi insisted on the suicide of the retired daimyo Hōjō Ujimasa, and the exile of his son Ujinao.
		As each samurai committed ritual disembowelment, the gruesome nature of the act shocked the captain, and he requested a pardon, due to which nine of the samurai were spared.
		This suicide, which became widely known as 'risutora seppuku', was said to represent the difficulties in Japan following the collapse of the bubble economy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hari-Kari (2617 words)

	Articles - Seppuku: the art of ritual suicide - ShopUsMore.com
		While committing seppuku during battle was quite a quick-performed action, the ritual of committing suicide on the order of the daimio was a long prepared meticulous ceremony carried out with utmost piece of mind.
		All the ritual details were thought over and chosen: the place, the sequence, the manner and participants.
		As seppuku was not quite an immediate suicide, it was prescribed by the ceremony to have a kaishkunin, an assistant who would in fact put an end to the victim.
	www.shopusmore.com /articles/seppuku_art.html (925 words)

	Samurai is one of the attractive
		It is the Japanese formal term for ritual suicide.
		Furthermore, the most common reason for committing seppuku was probably suicide in battlefield to avoid the shame of falling into the hands of the enemy.
		Samurai suicide in the battlefield to avoid the shame of falling into the hands enemy.
	www.indiana.edu /~ealc100/Group20/seppuku.htm (1107 words)

	Seppuku - Japanese for ritual suicide
		Samurai women could also commit ritual suicide, but this was usually done by slashing the throat with a small knife.
		Finally, in the feudal period (1190-1867) it was the form of punishment preferred in cases where the subject required an honourable, but necessary, death sentence, such as the 47 Ronin.
		There is a great deal of ritual associated with seppuku, particularly when it was done as a protest, or as an honourable punishment.
	www.japan-101.com /culture/seppuku.htm (616 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Disney (White Wilderness)
		These deaths are not deliberate "suicide" attempts, however, but accidental deaths resulting from the lemmings' venturing into unfamiliar territories and being crowded and pushed over dangerous ledges.
		In fact, when the competition for food, space, or mates becomes too intense, lemmings are much more likely to kill each other than to kill themselves.
		The sight of a few lemmings mistaking a lake or ocean for a stream and drowning after swimming out too far, or being pushed over a cliff during the frenzied rush of migration, has become the basis of a widespread belief that lemmings commit suicide en masse when their numbers grow too large.
	www.snopes.com /disney/films/lemmings.htm (429 words)

	Seppuku - Ritual Suicide
		Seppuku, (Sape-puu-kuu) the Japanese formal language term for ritual suicide (Hara-kiri (Har-rah-kee-ree) is the common language term.), was an intregal aspect of feudal Japan (1192-1868).
		Other reasons a samurai committed seppuku were: to show contempt for an enemy; to protest against injustice, as a means to get their lord to reconsider an unwise or unworthy action and as a means to save others.
		Although suicide is deplored in Japan today, it does not have the sinful overtones that are common in the west.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /duchamp/410/seppuku.html (624 words)

	Pakistani Arrested Over Prayer Ritual For Suicide Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A Pakistani who led a mass prayer ceremony for one of the London suicide bombers at his ancestral village in the Punjab has been arrested as part of President Pervez Musharraf's anti-terrorism clampdown.
		Molvi Abdul Rehman, 30, was detained after he organised a ritual service in honour of Shehzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old Briton whose parents emigrated from Pakistan.
		For instance, one of the London suicide bombers — Shehzad Tanweer — is believed to have got his training at a camp in Muridke, near Lahore.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1454008/posts (1950 words)

	World History Blog: Ritual Suicide
		Often the ritual was performed at temple (but not Shinto shrines), in the garden or villas, and inside homes.
		Although ritual suicide is rarely practiced in Japan today, the legacy lives on.
		There is less social stigma attached to suicide in Japan than there is in other parts of the world.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /2006/03/ritual-suicide_21.html (372 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dhun Baria, a member of Bombay's Zoroastrian community, known as Parsis, was shocked to be told that the body of her mother had lain untouched for nine months after she was laid to rest at the Towers of...
		Pakistani arrested over prayer ritual for suicide bomber By Massoud Ansari in Karachi (Filed: 31/07/2005) A Pakistani who led a mass prayer ceremony for one of the London suicide bombers at his ancestral village in the Punjab has been arrested as part of President Pervez Musharraf's anti-terrorism clampdown.
		Suicide bomber: Shehzad Tanweer The ceremony, held at the Samoondran mosque in the...
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=ritual (2763 words)

	AlterNet: Cancun Files: WTO Opens to Tragedy and Protest
		The ritual suicide of a South Korean farmer in protest of WTO policies marked the end of a day of confrontation.
		As word slowly spread of the suicide, supporters of Kun Hai Lee vowed to protest his martyrdom throughout the coming week, possibly starting with a tent city at the barricades where the death occurred.
		Lee's suicide marked the tragic end of a day of loud and sometimes violent protest.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=16755 (1587 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Episode
		Soon afterward, Lwaxana marches into Picard's office, outraged by Timicin's revelation that he will soon participate in a ritual suicide known as The Resolution.
		The ritual calls on all citizens of Kaelon II to kill themselves upon reaching the age of 60 in order to eliminate the society's responsibility of caring for the elderly.
		Lwaxana likens the ritual to murder but Picard refuses to intervene since the problem is out of his jurisdiction.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68498.html (501 words)

	Confusion Road - Satire That Fits Your Lifestyle
		According to the seppuku ritual, which originated with Samurai warriors in the twelfth century, Lott will dress in a white kimono, drink a cup of sake, and disembowel himself with a short sword called a tanto.
		Upon his death, he is considered to have restored honor to himself and his family.
		As part of the seppuku ritual, just before his suicide, Lott is required to recite a haiku poem summarizing his life and the error of his ways.
	www.confusionroad.com /article.php?article_id=85 (346 words)

	Articles - The Okinawan "Suicide Cliffs"
		There are over 30 monuments representing peace and atop Mobuni Hill where you can see the tragic "Suicide Cliffs," a monument is dedicated to two generals who committed ritual suicide (seppaku) rather than surrender to the U.S. troops.
		The castle was destroyed (today a replica stands there) and the soldiers were forced to the southern cliffs where most jumped to their deaths rather than surrender.
		Upon hearing that American "demons" would torture and kill their prisoners, many Okinawans committed suicide to face their death honorably rather than suffer at the hands of the enemy.
	www.21stcenturyadventures.com /articles/TheOkinawanSuicideCliffs.html (1673 words)

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