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Books on: mass suicide

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Hearing the Voices of Jonestown

Book by Mary McCormick Maaga; Syracuse University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Jonestown (Guyana)--Religion, Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978, Peoples Temple

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...0-8156-0515-3 alk. paper 1. Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978. 2...decision to commit murder and mass suicide was made by Jim Jones alone...making the decision to commit mass suicide if enemies threatened their collective...
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From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity

Book by Anton J. L.Van Hooff; Routledge, 1990

Subjects:

Suicide--Greece--History, Suicide--Rome--History

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in ...
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Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world.The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in the various media and traces the development of the concept of self-murder, as opposed to the original idea of autothanasia, which lies at the root of the Christian abhorrence of suicide.
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Ambitiosa Mors: Suicide and the Self in Roman Thought and Literature

Book by Timothy Hill; Routledge, 2004

Subjects:

Suicide--Rome

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

T.D. Hill traces the cultural logic which dictated the attitude to suicide amongst the Roman nobility. He describes the meaning & significance of often bizarre suicides in the contexts of their time & place, arguing that the significance of the 'noble death' cannot be understood in the context of modern ideas.
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Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror

Book by Mia Bloom; Columbia University Press, 2005

Subjects:

Non-Governmental Organizations, Suicide Bombers, Terrorism

Collections: Entire Library

...Finally, Josephus blamed the mass suicide at Masada on zealot intransi...defenders to engage in an act of mass suicide. (Two women and their five children...opposition to Roman oppression. Mass suicide was common after military defeats...
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Self-Destruction in the Promised Land: A Psychocultural Biology of American Suicide

Book by Howard I. Kushner; Rutgers University Press, 1989

Subjects:

Suicide--Physiological Aspects, Suicide--United States--History, Suicide--United States--Psychological Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Reverend William Adams reported in 1672 that the body of a suicide, Mrs. Thomas Whitteridge of Wenham, was found "with her face...all her face." Memoir of the Rev. William Adams, of Dedham, Mass., MHS, Collections , 4th ser. Boston, 1852 , 1: 17-18...

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Journal Articles on: mass suicide

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Suicide Coverage in Newspapers: an Ethical Consideration

Journal article by Elizabeth B Ziesenis, Carol Burnett; Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 6, 1991

Subjects:

Journalistic Ethics, Mass Media--Moral And Ethical Aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...recommended more research on the relationship between mass media and suicide. For decades sociological researchers have been...not significant. Other Relationships Between Mass Media and Suicide Newspaper Strikes Several researchers...
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David Chidester. Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown

Journal article by Bill Metcalf; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Guyana, died in a mass suicide-murder. The Jonestown event became...their well-planned, anticipated mass suicide. They were, on one hand, creating...Jonestown. When the evening of the mass suicide arrived, only a few members backed...
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Amicus Curiae Brief for the United States Supreme Court on Mental Health Issues Associated with "Physician-Assisted Suicide"

Journal article by James L. Werth Jr., Judith R. Gordon; Journal of Counseling and Development, Vol. 80, 2002

Subjects:

Assisted suicide--Laws, regulations, etc., Mental health law--Cases, Psychiatric personnel--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Multifarious Motivations for Suicide, in Suicide and Mass Suicide 18, 25 (J. Meerloo ed. 1962); Patel, Pathology of Suicide...20 J. Meerloo ed., Suicide and Mass Suicide (1962) 20 National Association of...
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Aboriginal, Maori and Inuit Youth Suicide: Avenues to Alleviation?

Journal article by Colin Tatz; Australian Aboriginal Studies, Vol. 2004, 2004

Subjects:

Indigenous peoples--Death of, Indigenous peoples--Health aspects, Indigenous peoples--Psychological aspects, Suicide--Causes of, Suicide--Demographic aspects, Suicide--Prevention, Suicide--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Inuit petrol- or glue-sniffers. More seriously, one has to ask whether this method is not, in the longer run, a form of mass suicide. In 2003, an Aboriginal elder declared, in the context of a search for new pathways in Aboriginal mental health, that...
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The Right to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Journal article by Neil M. Gorsuch; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 23, 2000

Subjects:

Assisted suicide--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

The right to assisted suicide and euthanasia. by Neil M. Gorsuch...INTRODUCTION Whether to permit assisted suicide and euthanasia is among the most contentious...Volkswagen van he had outfitted with a "suicide machine" consisting of three chemical...

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Magazine Articles on: mass suicide

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Ugandan Sect Commits Fiery Mass Suicide

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 117, April 5, 2000

Subjects:

Mass suicide--Uganda, Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God--Uganda, Uganda--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Ugandan sect commits fiery mass suicide Ugandan authorities...the March 17 apparent mass suicide in southwestern Uganda...1978 Jonestown, Guyana, suicide in which 914 followers...bulldozed March 20 into a mass grave, along with debris...
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U'wa Threaten Suicide in Fight against Oil Exploration

Magazine article by Shannon Curry; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 24, Fall 1998

Subjects:

Colombia--Discovery, exploration, etc., Mass suicide--Colombia, Oil and gas exploration--Colombia, South American native peoples--Environmental policy

Collections: Entire Library

...tribe of 5000 Uwa from Colombia say they will commit mass suicide by walking off a 1400-foot cliff if oil exploration...Oral histories say a portion of the tribe committed suicide at these cliffs 400 years ago instead of submitting...
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Sect Members Meet Violent End

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 111, October 19, 1994

Subjects:

Mass suicide--Investigations, Murder--Investigations, Switzerland--Crime

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...a carefully arranged ritualized mass suicide in Switzerland and a possibly related...the incidents, doubts about the mass-suicide theory arose after tests and physical...question whether the deaths were suicides, murders or a combination of both...
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Solar Sect Still a Mystery

Magazine article; The Christian Century, Vol. 111, November 2, 1994

Subjects:

Mass suicide--Investigations, Sects--Investigations

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the deaths appeared to be part of a bizarre, ritualized mass suicide. But later investigations indicated that Jouret, a Belgian...scholarly paper rapidly pulled together in the wake of the mass deaths and presented at the recent annual Communal Studies...
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Journalism's Fast Lane

Magazine article by Bill Hoffmann; American Journalism Review, Vol. 19, May 1997

Subjects:

Books--Authorship, Heaven's Gate (Organization)--Literature, Journalists--Personal narratives, Mass suicide--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Gate: Cult Suicide in San Diego," the first tome on the mass suicide of 39 cult members who poisoned and suffocated themselves...reporter dreams of: computer nerds, flying saucers, suicides, decomposing bodies -- even castration! When I was...

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Newspaper Articles on: mass suicide

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Suspects' Mass Suicide Bid

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 25, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Suspects Mass Suicide Bid. TWENTY-THREE suspected terrorists...hang or strangle themselves during an mass suicide attempt two years ago, the U.S. military...attempt to grab attention rather a serious suicide attempt. The Command insisted it was...
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Mass Suicide Bodies 'Beyond Human Shape'

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), March 20, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Mass Suicide Bodies Beyond Human Shape. AN apparent mass suicide in which up to 470 Ugandan cult members may have died...Mugenyi said the adults who died would be treated as suicide victims but the deaths of those aged under 18 would...
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Church Horror after Cult Members' Mass Suicide

Newspaper article by Simon Bird; The Birmingham Post (England), March 20, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Church Horror after Cult Members Mass Suicide. by Simon Bird An apparent mass suicide in which up to 470 Ugandan cult members...the adults who died would be treated as suicide victims but the deaths of those aged under...
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RAID US AND WE'LL COMMIT MASS SUICIDE; STALEMATE AT THE CATHEDRAL Asylum Hunger Strikers' Grim Promise Unless They Get Deal

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 20, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

RAID US AND WELL COMMIT MASS SUICIDE; STALEMATE AT THE CATHEDRAL Asylum Hunger Strikers Grim Promise...they will kill themselves and have blades and ropes ready for a mass suicide. Several have even threatened to jump from the organ loft in the...
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DOOMSDAY FOR 600; Cult Members Die in Mass Suicide Fire

Newspaper article by Adrian Shaw; The Mirror (London, England), March 20, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...DOOMSDAY FOR 600; Cult Members Die in Mass Suicide Fire. by Adrian Shaw...set themselves on fire in a ritual suicide. Men, women and children locked...Spirit Christian cult, carried out suicide attacks on Government troops after...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: mass suicide

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Cult

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...more than 900 others committed mass suicide. In 1993 a gunfight near Waco...mid-1970s whose 39 members committed mass suicide in California in 1997; and the...apparently died by mass murder and mass suicide in 2000. See D. J. Reavis, The...
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Jones, Jim

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The following day, Jones orchestrated the mass suicide of 912 followers, who were compelled to drink...Weightman, Making Sense of the Jonestown Suicides (1984); D. Chidester, Salvation and Suicide (1988). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Lemming

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...some reach and enter the ocean, where they drown. This behavior has given rise to folklore about lemmings committing mass suicide, but the population crashes mainly because lemming predators increase in number in response. Other species of the genus...
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Zealots

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Masada, a mountaintop fortress near the Dead Sea, was captured by the Romans only after its 900 defenders had committed mass suicide (a.d. 73) rather than be captured. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007...
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Uganda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...borders. In early 2000, Ugandan officials discovered the bodies of nearly 800 people who had died by mass murder and mass suicide; they had been members of the Ugandan millennialist Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. In...

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