Book of Suicide Notes

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This is very similar to the way liberals always seem to use Adam Smith and David Riccardo to strengthen their ideology. Adam Smith offered his free market approach as an alternative to the guilds and the mercantilism of the kingdoms and republics of the eighteenth century, while also warning for the de-humanizing effects of industrialism and free market enterprise – he actually wrote a whole treatise on how human beings sympathize with each other and how this sympathy is a basic human need.) In many circumstances, the only difference between a completed suicide and a suicide attempt is slightly greater pressure applied to a trigger. In either case the importance of gaining a greater understanding of the psychological conditions surrounding such a tragic event is immediately apparent; what leads an individual to contemplate, and perhaps commit, such an act? Similarly, what sorts of thoughts and feelings does one encounter when experiencing suicidal ideation? And how might our understanding of these phenomena aid in improving prevention efforts? Although these are challenging questions, suicide notes represent one potential window into the psychology of individuals who complete suicide 1, 2. By analyzing the language and contents of suicide notes, we can gain unique insight into shared features of individual experiences and perhaps a greater understanding of the cognitive processes that accompany suicidal ideation 3. Terry Williams makes us understand why young people engage in self-harm. He also tells us about what can be done. And by understanding the self-harm of our young, we also get to know ourselves as adults caught up in contemporary society. All this is brought to us with insight, respect, and dignity, without losing interpretative and critical power. What awaits the reader is the irrevocable need and hope for a dialogue between generations, since the self-harm of the young ultimately is a refusal to cope. Mats Trondman, Center for Cultural Sociology at Linnaeus University Fully Catholic European countries such as Italy, Portugal and Spain has much lower suicide rate than Protestant ones.

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The rest of the book instead, is about Judaism. The author uses Judaism and its followers to describe traits as it they are something unique to the Jews, forgetting the rest of the world apart from that which is culturally influenced Abrahamic religions. The false claim that environmental (or "cosmic," to use Durkheim's own language) factors have no influence on suicide.

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CHET: Hi. You may have already touched on this. I came in kind of late. I'm a retired police officer. I still do training and so I've dealt with a lot of these issues. In many ways this book is interested in something much deeper than just suicide – that probably sounds daft and perhaps even unfeeling, but there clearly is a deeper problem occupying Durkheim’s attention in this book. And that is – to what extent does the society or the groups within society that we belong to influence us in our most fundamental behaviours? Which is why his using suicide as the theme to this enquiry is so brilliant. Let’s face it, there are few things we can do that would be more likely to be attributed to our own ‘individual choice’ than suicide. Virtually all groups in society frown upon the very idea of taking one’s own life (most religions have remarkably strict rules against suicide – so much so that someone who suicides might even be barred from the afterlife or even face eternal punishment), which would seem to imply that to go ahead and commit suicide anyway would be the ultimate act of self-assertion. Durkheim is seeking to show in this book that the thing most likely to decide whether or not you commit suicide are factors outside of your own control, that is, due to the society you belong to, rather than your individual ‘preferences’ or ‘choices’. He shows that men are more likely to suicide than women, that Protestants are more likely than Jews or Catholics to take their own lives – and even that more educated people are more likely to do so as well. So, why might that be the case? When Williams gets out of the way and lets his subjects talk, his central point is vindicated: To care about teens (or anyone), start by listening to what they tell you. Peter C. Baker, Pacific Standard stars. This is a very difficult work to review. There's a lot of good here, but there's also a lot of bad. I'll start with the good.

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CONAN: And sometimes those of us in other fields of work think we have got depressing jobs. Reading those things and to analyze them, that's got to be sad work. Husbands with children has coefficient of preservation (against the control) of 2.9, the childless 1.5. Having spent 40 hours inside a bunker with his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, Hitler realized that there was no escape from the Red Army. He had also come to know of the fall of his friend, Benito Mussolini and how he was cut into pieces and thrown into the gutter by the Italian Partisans. He uses Jews in Europe as an example, noting that "the long-standing hostility of Christianity toward the Jews has created unusually strong feelings of solidarity among them. the need to struggle against general animosity and even the impossibility of communicating freely with the rest of the population" results in compact and cohesive individual Jewish societies with very strong feelings of their own identity and unity. So instead of the expected higher suicide rate among Jews because of the constant social and economic pressure they were under from the state and their neighbors, there was a much lower rate due, according to Durkheim, at least partly to the ostracism which was responsible for their plight. At each moment of its history, therefore, each society has a definite aptitude for suicide". [Hal. XI]Durkheim's thesis that, at least for the egoistic type, suicide results from, basically, a loss or diminishment of the bond between an individual and a social group is a theory that carries some weight. Seasonal variations (Summer stats always higher) and Christian denomination (Catholics almost always lower) are only nonmarital factors which seemed potential correlates. With a sprinkling of dark humor and a full measure of humanness, Suicide Notes is quirky, surprising, and a riveting read.” —Ellen Hopkins, author of The You I’ve Never Known and Love Lies Beneath