Ch 7 Suicide

• Threatening Suicide
• Attempting Suicide
• Committing Suicide

• They do so explicitly, directly, or clearly.
• They clearly want to live but threats are intended to achieve some objective in life
• Does not mean they will not commit suicide

• They are ambiguous in their intent
• Most attempts are carried out so they can be rescued
• Mostlikley women (lower class)

• Prior attemp to kills themselves
• Mostlikely men (higher class)
• 5 feelings: Depressed, Apologetic, Vindicated, Angry with themselves, Magnanimous, Surrealistic

• Residents in rural, wide-open areas
• Whites
• The less religious
• Males
• The divorced or single
• Older people
• The relatively well-off

• Going through adolescence
• Going to college
• Being in prison
• Being stricken with AIDS
• Under media influence

• Survivor's reactions- parents or children
• Advocating Suicide- Physician assisted suicide
• Preventing Suicide-

• Classical Durkheimian Theory
• A Modern Durkheimian Theory
• Phenomenological Theory

• Social Integration- part of a group (family)
• Social Regulation- females, part of group but regulated compared to brothers

• Egoistic- too little social integration (unmarried)
• Altruistic- too much intergration (bombers)
• Anomic- less socially regulated (rich countries)
• Fatalistic- more regulated (slaves)

• Sociological
• Psychological
• Economic

• Weak relational system- not involved in society (unmarried, older than 65)
• Weak external restrain- high status (white, males)

conditioned by parents and therefore developed a strong conscience so they blame themselves (kill themselves)

Economic drepression is frustrating and the higher- status individuals are impacted more and therefore more likely to kill themselves

• Theory of Suicidal Meaning-
• Theories of Suicidal Process-