Extended suicide

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-116
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
High Suicide Rate ◽  
Extended Suicide

Analyses of individuals choosing to die in suicide pacts and by groups of people in mass suicides are presented. Those involved appear to differ demographically and psychologically from suicides acting alone. In addition, examples of murderers who died by suicide after killing are presented, including mass murderers who have a high suicide rate and serial killers who have a much lower suicide rate than do mass murderers. In other cases, individuals chose suicide after murdering family members, sometimes in mercy killings but often after murdering family members. Today people appear to want company in death, and why suicide pacts, even between strangers, are becoming more common. Suicide is increasingly moving from being a solitary act to becoming a social behaviour.

Suicide among Foreign Residents of Japan

2011 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester ◽  
Yukio Saito ◽  
B. C. Ben Park
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
High Suicide Rate

The suicide rate of Koreans living in Japan is twice as high as that of Koreans in South Korea. Reasons for this high suicide rate are discussed, including effects of economic crises and discrimination.

scholarly journals A Suicide Prevention Program in a Region With a Very High Suicide Rate

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Szanto ◽  
Sandor Kalmar ◽  
Herbert Hendin ◽  
Zoltan Rihmer ◽  
J. John Mann
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
High Suicide Rate ◽  
Very High

Hunting Guns in Homes and Suicides in 15–24–Year-Old Males in Eastern Finland

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jukka Hintikka ◽  
Johannes Lehtonen ◽  
Heimo Viinamäki
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Suicide Method ◽  
Psychiatric Consultation ◽  
High Suicide Rate ◽  
Eastern Finland

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between firearm ownership, the presence of guns in homes, the use of psychiatric services and suicides in 15–24–year-old males in Eastern Finland. Method: Police and medico legal records of all suicides (n = 68) performed by 15–24–year-old males in the Kuopio province, Eastern Finland, in 1988–1995 were studied. Information was sought about firearm ownership, legality and purposes of use. Information was also sought about recent contacts with psychiatric services. Firearm suicides were compared with suicides by other methods. Results: The annual suicide rate for 15–24–year-old males was 51/100 000. Sixty-two percent of suicides were committed by shooting. In 74% of these, licensed hunting guns were used. The proportion of suicides committed by legal hunting guns stored in the homes of victims was 60% of all firearm suicides. Sixty-two percent of firearm suicides were committed in homes of victims or in someone else's residence where guns were present. Only 2% of those who shot themselves were seen in psychiatric consultation during the 3 months prior to death. Conclusions: The presence of hunting guns in homes means easy access to a most lethal suicide method and is associated with a high suicide rate for 15–24–year-old males in Eastern Finland.

Low cost measures should be used to tackle high suicide rate in India

BMJ ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 345 (oct11 3) ◽  
pp. e6875-e6875
Author(s):  
M. Limb
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Suicide Rate

scholarly journals Help-seeking, stigma and attitudes of people with and without a suicidal past. A comparison between a low and a high suicide rate country

2015 ◽  
Vol 178 ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Reynders ◽  
Ad J.F.M. Kerkhof ◽  
Geert Molenberghs ◽  
Chantal Van Audenhove
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
High Suicide Rate

Psychological Analysis of the Sri Lankan Conflict Culture with Special Reference to the High Suicide Rate

Crisis ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waltraud Bolz
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Conflict Prevention ◽  
High Suicide Rate ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Conflict Solution

Summary: The extremely high suicide rate in Sri Lanka is explained by a psychological analysis of the way in which Sri Lankans deal with conflicts. This “conflict culture” includes psychological factors, such as high rates in collectivism and power distance, repressive education, influence of foreign cultures, religion, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Structural changes toward another “conflict culture,” including conflict prevention and conflict solution in families and communities, are proposed.

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