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Suicide: Encyclopedia - Suicide

Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending one's own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. Suicide is viewed in highly varying ways among the cultures, religions, legal and social systems of the world. It is considered a sin or immoral act in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful or hopeless situations. Persons attempting or dy ...

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Suicide - Distinction between suicide and attempted suicide

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Suicide: Encyclopedia II - Suicide - Attempted suicide and parasuicide Many suicidal people participate in suicidal activities which do not result in death. These activities fall under the designation attempted suicide or parasuicide. Generally, those with a history of such attempts are almost 23 times more likely to eventually end their own lives than those without.[2] Sometimes, a person will make actions resembling suicide attempts while not being fully committed, or in a deliberate attempt to have ...

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Cultural views of suicide - East Asian Views

Suicide: Encyclopedia - Alt.suicide.holiday

alt.suicide.holiday (or a.s.h or ash) is a Usenet newsgroup. Its original purpose was to discuss the relationship between suicide rates and holiday seasons. However, it has since evolved into a pro-choice discussion forum for people contemplating suicide. According to its FAQ, its purpose is neither to encourage nor discourage suicide. Nonetheless, the newsgroup has become the defacto online mecca for two categories of people as evidenced by previously documented communication exchanges from the newsgroup: 1) Thos ...

Suicide: Encyclopedia - Cult suicide

Cult suicide is that phenomenon by which some religious groups, in this context often referred to as "cults", have led to their membership committing suicide. Sometimes all members commit suicide at the same time and place. Groups which have done this include, Heaven's Gate, Order of the Solar Temple, Peoples Temple (Jonestown), and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. In other cases certain denominations apparently supported mass suicide, but did not necessarily encourage all members to do it. Examples her ...

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Suicide: Encyclopedia - Copycat suicide

A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. The well-known suicide serves as a model, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide. They occasionally spread through a school system, through a community, or in terms of a celebrity suicide wave, nationally. Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired widespread copycat ...

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Suicide: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary on Suicide

suicide: "Self-killing." In Sanskrit, pranatyaga, "abandoning life force." Intentionally ending one's own life through poisoning, drowning, burning, jumping, shooting, etc.

Suicide has traditionally been condemned in Hindu scripture because, being an abrupt escape from life, it creates unseemly karma to face in the future. However, in cases of terminal disease or great disability, religious self-willed death through fasting - prayopavesha - is permitted. The person making such a decision declares it publicly, which allows for community regulation and distinguishes the act from suicide performed privately in traumatic emotional states of anguish and despair.

Ancient lawgivers cite various stipulations:

1) inability to perform normal bodily purification;

2) death appears imminent or the condition is so bad that life's pleasures are nil;

3) the action must be done under community regulation.

The gradual nature of prayopavesha is a key factor distinguishing it from sudden suicide, svadehaghata ("murdering one's body"), for it allows time for the individual to settle all differences with others, to ponder life and draw close to God, as well as for loved ones to oversee the person's gradual exit from the physical world. In the ideal, highly ritualized practice, one begins by obtaining forgiveness and giving forgiveness.

Next a formal vow, mahavrata-marana, "great vow of death," is given to one's guru, following a full discussion of all karmas of this life, especially fully and openly confessing one's wrongdoings. Thereafter, attention is to be focused on scripture and the guru's noble teachings. Meditation on the innermost, immortal Self becomes the full focus as one gradually abstains from food. At the very end, as the soul releases itself from the body, the sacred mantra is repeated as instructed by the preceptor.

See: death, penance, reincarnation, soul, prayopavesha.

(See also: Suicide, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

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Suicide: Encyclopedia II - Internet suicide - Traditional suicide pacts vs internet suicide pacts

A recent internet article published by the Canterbury Suicide Project (“Suicide Pacts”, Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand, May 2005) makes some notable comparisons between the nature of “traditional” suicide pacts and more recent internet-related suicide pacts (or, as described in the article, “cyber-based suicide pacts”). It points out that, traditionally, suicide pacts have been extremely rare; usually involve older individuals (50-60 years old) and very few adolescents; and tend to be between individuals with ...

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