Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit.” -Bill Maher Suicide in different cultures.
Feb 22, 2016
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit.”
-Bill Maher
Suicide in different cultures.
Suicide:
Reasons:•Depression•shame •guilt•desperation•physical pain•emotional pressure •anxiety•financial difficulties
ReligionHonorMeaning of life
Cultural Views on existential themes
a controversial ethical issue involving people who are terminally ill
Self-sacrifice for others is not usually considered suicide
Individuals who wish to end their own life may enlist the assistance of another person to achieve death
Euthanasia
about a million people die by suicide annuallysuicides in the U.S. outnumber homicides by
nearly 2 to 1Worldwide suicide rates have increased by
60% in the past 50 yearsChina, India and Japan may account for 40%
of all world suicides.
Epidemiology of suicide
Males die much more often by means of suicide than do females
females attempt suicide more oftenmales are more likely to end their lives
through effective violent means women primarily use more failure-prone
methods such as overdosing on medications
Gender & Suicide
an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before or at the same time as him or herself
can be purely criminal in nature or be perceived by the perpetrator as an act of care for loved ones in the context of severe depression
Murder-suicide
Suicide methods
FirearmsAsphyxiationIntoxicationself-defenestratingDrowningSelf-immolationSuicide by copElectrocution
Suicide attackReckless DisregardkamikazeKaitensRitual suicide :
Kaitens by men and jigai by women
mass suicideElectrocutionEct….
Modern medicine treats suicide as a mental health issue
suicide is also viewed as a cultural normIn most forms of Christianity, suicide is
considered a sinSuicide is not allowed in the religion of IslamSome see suicide as a legitimate matter of
personal choice and a human right
Views on Suicide
the act of setting out on an obviously fatal course without directly committing the act upon oneself
In some instances the subjects commits a capital crime in hope of being sentenced to death
Indirect suicide
Pictures
The Megan Meier Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MxxqcH_Mkc
an American teenager who committed suicide in October 2006. Her suicide was attributed to cyber-bullying through the social networking website MySpace. The account through which the bullying took place purportedly belonged to a 16-year-old male named "Josh Evans." However, the mother of a former friend of Meier, Lori Drew, later admitted creating the MySpace account with her 18-year-old employee, Ashley Grills and her daughter.
Suicide affect not only the person that commit the act but the people around that person.
In this video itwill show Kamikazehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=O5slCTLrFHI&feature=relatedThis video made in japan represent in a way
what suicide dose to people in a way when when you die we all die with you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n0NCqOKY-M
Suicide affect