scholarly journals Rohith-Movement, Conversion, and Renaming

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-527
Author(s):  
Dickens Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Note

Abstract Reflecting on the “suicide” of the anti-caste student activist in India, Rohith Vemula, now a Dalit icon, this paper looks at the various meanings that his suicide note generates for the Dalit present. Mobilizing historical and philosophical material, particularly the work of anti-caste intellectuals such as Ambedkar and Iyothee Thass, the paper argues that conversion and renaming, among the oppressed, are acts that move toward becoming-other.

Is the Gender of a Suicide Note Writer Associated with Judgments Made about the Suicide?

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-50
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Suicidal Person ◽  
Emotional Upset ◽  
Suicide Note

The gender of a suicide note writer did not affect 44 undergraduate students' judgments of the emotional upset, mental illness, likelihood of death, or rationality of the suicidal person.

Request for euthanasia in the suicide note of a planned suicide

2018 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Jatin Bodwal ◽  
Asit Kumar Sikary ◽  
Mohit Chauhan ◽  
Chittaranjan Behera
Keyword(s):  
Vegetative State ◽  
Suicide Victim ◽  
Suicide Methods ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
Commit Suicide

This case is of a suicide victim who purchased various drugs online using forged prescriptions after detailed research about the drugs to commit suicide. He left a suicide note giving details of his suicide methods and the reasons for it. He also denied any treatment and asked for euthanasia if he survived and remained in a vegetative state.

scholarly journals HEDGES EXPRESSIONS IN CONFESSIONAL DISCOURSE OF IDA CRADDOCK’S SUICIDE NOTES

Prosodi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Rizkya Fajarani Bahar ◽  
Lisetyo Ariyanti
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
The Public ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
Confessional Discourse

Some people commited suicide tried to express what they felt and left message explaining the causes of why they committed suicide. The suicide note was written by the person who commited suicide as a purpose to give a sign to other people. One of those people was Ida Craddck who was a 19th century American. She advocated freedom of speech and women rights who committed suicide because of inappropriate decision from the judge. Her books were prosecuted by Anthony Comstock as obscene literature. This study was aimed to examine the hedges expressions that maintained the functions of confessional texts which were used by Craddock. The results found that hedges were used on her confessions to support her criticism and wish to the public. Those criticism and wish were confessed by Craddock to aware the public about people’s freedom condition. Her confessions had function to tell her personal story that led her to suicide which could be learnt by other people so that they could have a better life. Finally, hedges were used to express her uncertainty of the truth of what she confessed about her cause of death.

Cumberer of the Earth

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Diane Miller Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

This chapter surveys the long nineteenth century with an eye toward assessing how suffering and suicidal activity during the Civil War ushered in cultural and religious changes in ideas about suicide and the importance of those changes in laying groundwork for a new Confederate identity. The psychological crisis that grew out of the Civil War remapped the cultural, theological, and intellectual contours of the region. The scourge of war-related psychiatric casualties altered long-held axioms about suicide yielding a more tolerant, nuanced understanding of self-destruction as a response to suffering, one that found expression in sympathy and compassion for suicide victims. More routinely, denunciations of suicide were replaced with compassionate resignation. The writings of fire-eater Edmund Ruffin’s about suicide -- on the suicide of Thomas Cocke in 1840 and his own suicide note in 1854 -- are a window into how southerners thought about self-murder. His more tolerant views toward suicide before the war were out-of-step with most, but by war’s end more and more southerners dissented from rigid religious doctrine that cast self-murder as a mortal sin and came to share his view that sometimes circumstances justified death by one’s hand.

A burned body with a gunshot wound in the mouth and a suicide note: A complex or complicated suicide?

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 101958
Author(s):  
Francesco Simonit ◽  
Ugo Da Broi ◽  
Cristina Furioso ◽  
Lorenzo Desinan
Keyword(s):  
Gunshot Wound ◽  
Suicide Note

Suicide note written on the forearm using a sharp pointed object

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
Chittaranjan Behera ◽  
Ravi Rautji ◽  
Ramesh Pratap Anuragi ◽  
Ram Niwas Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
The Body ◽  
Suicide Notes ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
Metallic Object

Suicide notes are generally written on readily available materials, such as paper, notebook, wall or mirror by means of pen, pencil, marker or chalk. They can also be communicated by telephone, text messages, internet and digital media. A case has been reported where a note was written with henna. Suicide notes written on one’s body are uncommon, and notes engraved on the body with a sharp metallic object are extremely rare. We present two cases where a sharp pointed metallic object was used to write suicide notes on the body.

Judging the Sex and Age of Suicide Note Writers

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1218-1218
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Note ◽  
Better Than

Six expert judges were able to guess the age of suicide note writers better than chance but were less successful in guessing the sex.

Media reporting of suicide and adherence to media guidelines

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 536-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall McTernan ◽  
Ailbhe Spillane ◽  
Grace Cully ◽  
Eimear Cusack ◽  
Theresa O’Reilly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Behaviour ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Quality Of Reporting ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Suicide Note ◽  
The Media

Background: International research consistently shows evidence for an association between sensationalised and detailed media reporting, and suicidal behaviour. Aim: This study examined the quality of media reporting of suicide and adherence to media guidelines in Ireland. Methods: In accordance with the criteria outlined in the media guidelines for reporting suicide, 243 media articles were screened and analysed for quality of reporting of two high-profile cases of suicide and two cases of suicide that became high profile following a period of intense media coverage that occurred between September 2009 and December 2012. Results: A minority of articles breached the media guidelines in relation to sensationalised language (11.8%), placement of reports on the front page of the newspaper (9.5%), publishing of inappropriate photographs (4.2%) and mention of location of suicide (2.4%), while no articles disclosed the contents of a suicide note. However, in the majority of articles analysed, journalists did not refer to appropriate support services for people vulnerable to, and at risk of suicide (75.8%) or mention wider issues that are related to suicidal behaviour (53.8%). Overemphasis of community grief (48.3%) was also common. Nearly all articles (99.2%) breached at least one guideline and 58.9% of articles breached three or more guidelines. Conclusion: Overall, adherence to media guidelines on reporting suicide in Ireland improved in certain key areas from September 2009 until December 2012. Nonetheless, important challenges remain. Increased monitoring by media monitoring agencies, regulators and government departments is required. Implementation should be conducted using a pro-active approach and form part of the curriculum of journalists and editors. The inclusion of guidelines for the reporting of suicidal behaviour in press codes of conduct for journalists warrants consideration.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document