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Dead End: A Book about Suicide

Book by John Langone; Little, Brown, 1986

Subjects:

Suicide--Juvenile Literature, Suicide--Prevention--Juvenile Literature, Youth--Suicidal Behavior--Juvenile Literature

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Prison, suicide in, 45 Problems in living...Life changes Protestants, suicide rate among, 44 Psyche...74 - 75 ; approaches to suicide study, 75 Psychosis, 41...Right to suicide, 158 - 161 Ritual suicide, 52 , 59 - 60...
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Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide

Book by Thomas Szasz; Praeger, 1999

Subjects:

Suicide--Moral And Ethical Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Philosophy, Entire Library

...both oppose "irrational" suicide: "For the first time in history...distinguishing rational from irrational suicide. After all, with that option...by panic instead to commit suicide by other ordinary, messy...Obligatory Suicide. . . . The ritual suicide of suttee in India...
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Suicide in the Middle Ages

Book by Alexander Murray; Oxford University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Church And Social Problems, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500, Suicide--History

Collections: Psychology, History, Entire Library

...disapproval expressed for suicide in Jewish antiquity" In the...century Durkheim would place the suicide exposure of the military in...explain away the approved suicides in early Germanic sources...usages-like the killing or ritual suicide of the old and historical...
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Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self-Harm

Book by Gavin J. Fairbairn; Routledge, 1995

Subjects:

Suicidal Behavior, Suicide--Moral And Ethical Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Philosophy, Entire Library

...seppukus death may not be suicide; this is not to say that some who seppuku might not be suicides, but simply that the act of seppuku in itself need not be suicide. There may be occasions when...make it easier for him to suicide, because, for example...bring himself to engage in the ritual act of seppuku, simply killing...
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Durkheim's Suicide: A Century of Research and Debate

Book by W. S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Suicide

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...several examples of altruistic suicide. They cannot be dismissed...sense prescribed or expected suicides of individual soldiers in...socially recognized and approved suicides to be found in other civilizations...Clear examples are seppuku suicide by ritual disembowelling in Japan and...

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Understanding Suicide Attack: Weapon of the Weak or Crime against Humanity?

Journal article by Yousuf Ali Md; Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, Vol. 10, 2011

Subjects:

Bombings, Councils, Religion, Society, Suicide bombings, Terrorism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...loved ones, or one may commit suicide to protect ones honor as in...allowed a samurai to commit ritual suicide as a way of protecting honor...definition to separate true suicides from accidental deaths. He...collected several European nations suicide rate statistics, which proved...
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Suicide Bombings in Operation Iraqi Freedom

Journal article by Robert J. Bunker, John P. Sullivan; Military Review, Vol. 85, 2005

Subjects:

Army-US, Iraq War-2003, National security, Suicide bombings, Terrorism, Traditions

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...into a well-coordinated trap.6 However, Mongol suicide or near-suicide operational concepts did not extend into the modern...Bushido warrior code contained the provision for ritual suicide (seppuku) and made death preferable to the dishonor...
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Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia

Journal article by Mark D. Steinberg; Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...experience. The analyzed object here is less suicides themselves than situated interpretations and responses to suicide. What lay behind these often heart...Morrissey offers some suggestive readings of suicides efforts to speak through death. But...the persistent incomprehensibility of suicide that so compelled contemporaries to...
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Suicide and Gender: Reading Suicide through Butler's Notion of Performativity (1)

Journal article by Katrina Jaworski; Journal of Australian Studies, 2003

Subjects:

Australia--Social aspects, Australians--Social aspects, Suicide--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...produced pattern in which suicide is a repeated ritual on an individual and collective...this does not explain how suicide is citational where each act...research that maintains that suicide differs on the basis of gender...In contrast, most male suicides are considered violent because...
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Frames of Female Suicide

Journal article by Margaret Higonnet; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 32, 2000

Subjects:

Control (Psychology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Death in literature--Analysis, Feminist criticism--Analysis, Suicide--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Psychology, Literature, Entire Library

...legal investigations, explanatory suicide notes, allusions to other suicides. This indeterminacy derives from...through gender. The discourse on suicide itself is highly gendered and polarized. While some "heroic" suicides become encoded as masculine and exemplary...female suicide in that the primary suicide is located at the end. Yet the female suicides in the letters deviate from the conventional...

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The Shame of Medicine: Is Suicide Legal?

Magazine article by Thomas Szasz; Freeman, Vol. 61, July 2011

Subjects:

Assisted suicide, Disease, Medicine, Mental disorders, Mental health care, Stabbings

Collections: Entire Library

The Shame of Medicine: Is Suicide Legal? by Thomas Szasz What...of indifference to the law. Suicide is not. Accordingly, suicide...suggested that coercive psychiatric suicide prevention is one of its defining...emblems. Opposing this revered ritual is a thankless task but a worthy...
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I Was a Success at Everything - except Suicide

Magazine article by Gayleen M. Eilers; Medical Economics, Vol. 73, January 29, 1996

Subjects:

Mental disorders, Personal profiles, Physicians, Suicides & suicide attempts, United States

Collections: Entire Library

...I Was a Success at Everything - except Suicide by Gayleen M. Eilers On Sept. 2, 1994...There, in the quiet, I would plan my suicide, praying for death. But did I really...two weeks, the physical effects of my suicide attempt--the disequilibrium, muscle...
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Law as Dance, Theater, or Music: Legal Procedure and Ritual

Magazine article by Rafael Chodos; Cross Currents, Vol. 52, Summer 2002

Subjects:

Justice, Administration of, Liturgical language--Social aspects, Music--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--History, Ritual

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...include much in the way of ritual. Yet ritual comes in many shapes and sizes. There is mindless ritual, things done by rote, things repeated...understanding. And there is mindful ritual which is deliberate and highly conscious...mind does the participant come to the rituals? And we realize that there is no one...
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Suicide Machine: A Powerful Tale of West Bank Bombers Offers Bleak Insights

Magazine article by Victoria Segal; New Statesman, Vol. 135, April 17, 2006

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Movie reviews, Paradise Now (Motion picture)--Movie reviews

Collections: Entire Library

Suicide Machine: A Powerful Tale...Oscars. The story of two suicide bombers living out the last...band but they are actually suicide bombers-in-waiting, and...prepared by their handlers, a ritual that includes prayer, food...
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Satanic Cults' Ritual Abuse of Children: Horror or Hoax?

Magazine article by Jeffrey S. Victor; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, November 1993

Subjects:

Child abuse--Social aspects, Satanism--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...who said she had witnessed the ritual murder of infants born out of...direct allegations of Satanic ritual abuse have surfaced in many of...killing of domestic animals to ritual murder and suicide. Even teenage graffiti is seen...

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Britons in Ritual Suicide Shooting

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 24, 1996

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

Britons in Ritual Suicide Shooting. Byline: TONY GALLAGHER;ROGER SCOTT THREE young Britons were at the centre of a macabre suicide riddle in the U.S. last night. Stephan Bateman and Ruth Fleming...
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Pair in 'Religious Act' before Suicide at Spanish Resort; Inquest Opens into Death of Tragic Father

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 4, 2008

Subjects:

Suicide--Investigations

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

Pair in Religious Act before Suicide at Spanish Resort; Inquest Opens into...to perform "some sort of religious ritual" with his wife moments earlier, an...if engaged in some form of religious ritual. The deceased was holding his wife...
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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...600; Cult Members Die in Mass Suicide Fire. by Adrian Shaw SIX HUNDRED...cult 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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CULT SUICIDE PACT OR MASS MURDER?; Sect Leader May Still Be Alive after 600 Die

Newspaper article by Shaun Milne; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 20, 2000

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

CULT SUICIDE PACT OR MASS MURDER?; Sect Leader May Still Be Alive after 600 Die. by Shaun Milne THE ritual suicide of 600 followers of a doomsday cult in Africa may have been mass murder...
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Japanese Author's Despair Prophetic: But Suicide Tainted Legacy of Mishima

Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, May 3, 1996

Subjects:

Japan

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

...authors despair prophetic: But suicide tainted legacy of Mishima by Willis...a quarter-century after his ritual hara-kiri suicide shocked the world. As one of...completed the traditional suicide ritual (Japanese use the word seppuku...

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Mishima, Yukio

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...harangued the Japanese self-defense forces for their lack of power under the Japanese constitution, Mishima committed ritual suicide ( seppuku ). See biographies by J. Nathan (1974) and H. S. Stokes (1975...
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Cult

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

CULT ritual observances involved in worship...group. It includes not only ritual activities but also the beliefs...doctrine, leadership, and ritual, but most stress direct experience...900 others committed mass suicide. In 1993 a gunfight near...

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