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Society - Death - Suicide
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Ethics Side of Suicide - Ethical issues associated with suicide treatment, intervention and facilitated suicide.

Suicide is Painless - Celebrates the rights of life and death. Poetry and personal stories.

IRC Suicide Channel at IRCnet - Channel #suicide about suicide, mental health and philosophy.

Suicide Survivor FAQs - Some frequently asked questions about suicide survivors.

Xrefer - Suicide - Definition and short philosophical review.

Suicide is Painless - Lyrics of the theme song from M*A*S*H.

I Want to Die - Personal story of a quadriplegic.

Death: Suicide - Educational site about death in general, and suicide in particular. Covers different types of suicide.

Suicide in Art, Film and Literature - From the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database.

What if Someone Commits Suicide - Motivations and interpretations of suicide. Suicide in history. From a Christian doctor who specializes in Multiple Personality Disorder.

Suicide Lodge - Contains both pro-life and pro-choice views; it does not take a stand on this issue. Includes information about methods, how various religions view suicide, stories and statistics.

Understanding And Dealing With Violence And Suicide Pacts - The motivation and dynamics of suicide pacts.

Archive of alt.suicide.holiday - 1993-2002 archive of methods, poetry, and stories for and about the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup.

#alt.suicide.bus.stop (ASBS) - Peer-support chat for those feeling suicidal, and believe in an individual's right to choose. Website with extensive library, private bulletin board and the FAQ of the Usenet newsgroup alt.suicide.holiday (ASH).

Suicide Forum - Suicide suggestions, chat, help. Pro-choice.

Suicide by Cop - For law enforcement personnel.

Suicide By Cop - Victim Precipitated Homicide, articles by criminologist Rick Parent.

A Practical Guide To Suicide - Early draft by the Church of Euthanasia.

ash Methods File - Old, inaccurate, humorous yet comprehensive list of methods.

Assisted Suicide Methods - Dr. Jack Kevorkian uses these two methods to help people commit suicide.

How to Kill Yourself - The Church of Euthanasia's official recommended method.

Methods Information - Electrocution, hanging, LD50 data, and methods to avoid.

Seppuku - A practical guide.

Popular Suicide - Semi humorous.

Seppuku and Jisatsu in Modern Japanese Literature - Including the works of Yukio Mishima, Natsume Soseki and Kokoro.

Golden Gate Bridge Suicides - The number one spot in the world for suicides.

How to Kill Yourself Using the Inhalation of CO - Practical instruction on how to kill yourself using the inhalation of carbon monoxide gas.

The Last Project - How to commit suicide? - This is a rational attempt to give an answer to the simple question "How to commit suicide?". Different methods are described and compared.

Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences - Medical consequences of suicide attempts. Contains substantial parts of Geo Stone's standard reference book, plus additional material.

Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws: Book 29 - Greek and Roman laws against suicide.

Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws: Book 14 - Comparison of Roman and English suicides and its effect on the law.

Legal Definition of Suicide - The legal term "Suicide" defined and explained.

British Medical Journal: The law on managing patients who deliberately harm themselves and refuse treatment

Oregon Death with Dignity Act - The complete statute of this controversial law.

Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 - U.S. Federal Law

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - The Court's rulings on cases involving suicide.

What Is The Current Law Regarding Assisted Suicide?

Suicide Clause - Legal definition of this insurance terminology.

Bizarre Suicides - Some of the more imaginative ways well-known people have chosen to end their lives.

St. Pelagia - Virgin and martyr.

Politicians Who Committed Suicide - American politicians.

Memorial page - For our loved ones, lost to the tragedy of suicide.

Suicide: Dead Musician Directory - Musicians who took their own lives.

Death of a Rock Star - The suicide of Wendy O Williams.

Alexander Berkman Archive - Active anarchist. Suffering from chronic pain, he committed suicide in 1936.

Suicide Memorial - Suicide memorial for Jennifer Garvey, age 15. Includes links, books, and a message board about suicide.

Rumors about Jack London's Death - Most sources claim that he committed suicide, however, there is other evidence.

Cobain Murder Investigation - Investigation into the events surrounding the death of musician Kurt Cobain.

Rock star Michael Hutchence of INXS - Includes full transcript of coroner's report.

Memories of Michael - Eulogies for Michael Graeme Lewis, an artist suffering from depression. Committed suicide in 1997.

Pascin - Julius Pinkas Pascin (1885-1930) was born in Bulgaria and studied art at a young age.

Cesare Pavese - Italian novelist, poet, and translator. In 1950, unhappy with both his personal life and the political climate of postwar Italy, he committed suicide.

Boltzmann - Biography of Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906). Famous mathematician and physicist.

Ananova: Elderly Couple Commit Suicide, December 22, 2001 - An elderly Malaysian couple have committed suicide by jumping from the fifteenth floor of their apartment block because they didn't want to be a burden on their family.

Love? Duty? or Sacrifice? -- The Sati System - Eye witness account of a 16th century Sati (suicide ritual). By Pietro Della Valle.

Virginia Woolf - Suicide - Virginia Woolf's psychiatric history.

Margaux Hemingway Committed Suicide - CNN article. August, 20, 1996.

Ananova: Champion undersea diver commits suicide, December 23, 2001 - Record-setting free-dive champion Jacques Mayol, who inspired the film The Big Blue, committed suicide at his villa on the island of Elba.

George Eastman Kodak - The founder of the Kodak company.

Life and Death of Lolo Ferrari - Feature story on the suicide of the porn star, from the Guardian (UK).

List of Famous Suicides - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Ethical Debate - Chapter 5 from "When Death is Sought - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context". A comprehensive historical and philosophical survey.

Morality of Suicide - Why, if at all, is it morally unacceptable for one to bring about one's own death? Considers the views of Hume, Kant and Utilitarianism.

Suicide: A Civil Right - From the Antipsychiatry Coalition.

Summa Theologica II-II, 64, 5 - Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas.

Suicide and Assisted Suicide - Chapter from Peter McWilliams book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do".

The complete works of Robert Green Ingersoll - Includes five sections of his views on suicide.

The Murder of Oneself - A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide.

The Absurd Hero - Summary of "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.

Suicide - Suicide and the absurd. Contrasting the views of Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel.

On Suicide - By Arthur Schopenhauer.

Of The Duty Owed By Mankind To Himself In Respect Of His Animal Part - From "The Metaphsyic of Ethics" by Immanuel Kant.

Suicide in Philosophy - From the Suicide & Parasuicide Web Site.

What are our powers of disposal over our life? - From Kant, Lectures on Ethics.

Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul - The Complete 1783 Edition of David Hume's Essays.

Book Review: Fatal Freedom - The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide.

Kevorkian Lies, and Suicide by Thomas S. Szasz - Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one.

Assisted Suicide Is Bootleg Suicide, By Thomas Szasz - Bootlegging is likely to occur whenever a law prohibits a human need strong enough to incite people to satisfy it, even at considerable economic cost and personal risk.

FACTNet Psychosis And Suicide - Scientology and suicide.

Order of the Solar Temple - Cult with incidents of mass suicide.

The People's Temple, Jim Jones - Doomsday cult committed mass suicide in 1978.

More Than 200 Die in Uganda Cult Mass Suicide - The second biggest ritual mass suicide.

On Reading Valedictory Texts: Suicide Notes, Last Wills and Testaments - Such texts are particularly sensitive to the problem of limited information, the potential for miscommunication, the inscrutability of authorial intention, and the real consequences to others of the author's irrevocable absence.

CNN O.J. Simpson Trial News: The Suicide Note

The Whiny Goth Kids Page - Web board for posting suicide notes.

A Suicide Letter - This page contains an actual suicide note written by someone under great duress.

If I Were To Write A Suicide Letter - Here is what I would say.

Suicide Note - Read suicide notes of others, or create your own.

Dying Words of Famous People - Suicide notes.

Phoenix Art Museum - Frida Kahlo: Suicide of Dorothy Hale

The Suicide of Saul - Pieter Bruegel's painting of the biblical suicide.

Bill Thomas: Suicide - Artistic photography of staged suicide scenes.

Suicide Through the Eyes of the Artist - From the Suicide Prevention Triangle.

Kristin Mallory Illustration - Illustration for an article on teen suicide.

Jack Kevorkian Art - Art work summary of the famed doctor.

Before Suicide - Title work by Sheila W. Chambers.

Suicide - Painting by Robert Blakeley.

Death of Socrates - Jacques-Louis David painting of the famous suicide.

Suicide Tree - Art Marrus work inspired by Dante's Inferno.

Andy Warhol- Suicide

Kaiten Suicide Submarines - Japan's under water Kamikazes. Mostly a technical description of the Kaiten submarine.

The Tradition of Sati in India - Sati is the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.

Seppuku - Ritual Suicide - An integral part of the code of bushido and the discipline of Japanese samurai warriors.

Suicide For Honor And Country - News article by CBS, about diaries of Kamikaze pilots.

Suicide Statistics - From Befrienders International. Links to statistics from USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and international statistics by the World Health Organization.

Suicide Statistics for lesbian/Gay Youth - Annotated Bibliography.

USA Suicide Summary: 1999 Official Final Data - Prepared for the American Association of Suicidology by John L. McIntosh.

United States Suicide Statistics - American Association of Suicidology studies available in PDF format.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: College (The Pencil Suicide) - Student stressed by exam pressures commits suicide by shoving pencils up his nostrils.

Myths of Suicide Loss - Outlines 10 myths about suicide loss and briefly states the corresponding realities.

The Lemming: the Mass Suicide Myth Explained - This member of the rodent family is famous for its 'mass suicide migrations'.

Deconstructing Ronald Opus - Urban Legends and Folklore - Sleuthing an Internet legend: the complicated demise of Ronald Opus.

Can Animals Commit Suicide? - Answered by ScienceNet.

Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: Suicide - Includes some history of sociological research of suicide and numerous statistics and analysis.

Social Facts and Suicide - How Durkheim defined social facts and a summary of his research on suicide.

Suicide (1897) - Summary of Emile Durkheim's sociological research about suicide.

Why do Durkheim's Theories Remain Appealing to Sociologists ? - Durkheim's "Le Suicide" has problems, however, its importance lies in devising and applying the sociological method.

CNN: South Korean Deaths Linked to Suicide Site - December 19, 2000 - The deaths shocked many in one of the world's fastest-growing Internet markets -- a contract murder and suicide pact allegedly arranged through a Web site.

Suicide Web Site Sparks Controversy in the Netherlands - Computer news from CNEWS.

Suicidal Ideation in Virtual Support Groups - An overview of the occurrence of people posting suicide notes to cyberspace groups.The value of virtual support groups is addressed.

Nation's Educators Alarmed By Poorly Written Teen Suicide Notes - From The Onion.

Frequently Asked Questions: Suicide - From the Modern Humorist.

Parents Of Suicide Victim Saw It Coming A Mile Away - From The Onion.

Virtual Suicide Cult - As the millennium approaches, do you feel something is missing in your life? Maybe it's death.

Suicide, The Gift That Keeps On Giving - Fitshaced magazine: Officer Bob, a hospital security guard, provides some tips.

Layman's Guide To Suicide - A humorous book on suicide and suicide planning.

Suicide in Early Modern Europe - Bibliography of works on the history of suicide in early modern Europe.

History of Suicide, by Georges Minois - First chapter from his book.

Cato and His Heirs: Roman Ideals of Suicide - The Romans considered suicide permissible in many circumstances.

Josephus Describes Mass Suicide at Masada

Masada: the Credibility of Josephus - Did hundreds of Jews commit suicide at Masada?

Media Guidelines on Portrayal of Suicide - Covering subjects like how the media can help, different kinds of portrayals and copycat suicides. Presented by the Irish Association of Suicidology.

Suicide Contagion & Reporting Suicide - Recommendations on how to report suicide in media without causing contagion (the triggering of other suicide incidents).

Death Will Have His Day: Suicide - An overview of the suicides of great Shakespearean characters.

Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors - A book by Mark Seinfelt about literary suicide.

Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho - Veronika attempts suicide. The story follows her experiences during hospitalization.

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Literary analysis of the book of Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The novel was accused to have caused a sudden rise in suicide attempts.

Goethe, J. W. von. 1917. The Sorrows of Werther. - Published in Vol. XV, Part 1. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction.

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy - Tolstoy's search for meaning. Chapters 4-7 expand about his struggle with suicide.

Etgar Keret - The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God - Suicide is a frequent theme in the short stories of this Israeli author.

Daughter of Suicide - A documentary film by Dempsey Rice.

Concepts of Suicide in Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry - Analysis of the film Taste of Cherry(1997), about a man's quest to commit suicide.

Girl On the Bridge - French black and white film about a young girl, who has decided to commit suicide, but is stopped by a job offer: to be a target in a knife-throwing act.

Ikinai: They Were Happy Because They Knew They Were Going To Die - Interview with Shimizu Hiroshi, director of Ikinai ("Not to Live"), a film about a suicide bus tour.

Anglican Church in America - Statement on the moral implications of suicide.

The Other Side of the Trigger - Dealing with the thoughts and pain that lead to suicide, by one who's been there.

Contemplating Suicide? - A former police officer states his opinions about suicide. Prevention oriented. Christian.

CDMS Position Statement: Suicide - by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations.

LCMS FAQ: Suicide - The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod stand on suicide.

Buddhism and Suicide - The ethics of suicide in Buddhism in light of the case of Channa.

Rational Suicide and the Dearth of Courageous Humanists - From "Antithesis", a publication by Covenant Community Church of Orange County.

Suicide and the Silence of Scripture - From Christianity Today Magazine. Ethics of suicide and suicide cases in the Bible.

Roman Catholic Church - Encyclical by John Paul II. Includes stand about suicide which is viewed as morally objectionable as murder.

Suicide Down the Ages - A Judeo-Christian Perspective. Chapter from a booklet about Euthanasia by the Christian Medical Fellowship.

Teshuvah on Assisted Suicide - From the Rabbinical Assembly Conservative Judaism Magazine.

What If Life Just Sucks? - Conversation between a person contemplating suicide and a Christian.

What the Bible Says About Suicide - Explains the Bible principles relating to suicide, according to Christianity.

Will God Forgive Someone for Committing Suicide? - Biblical view of whether God will forgive a Christian who commits suicide.

Comparative Index to Islam : Suicide - Suicide is forbidden in Islam.

Suicide Awareness - An Islamic point of view.

Do Christians who commit suicide automatically go to hell? - With quotes from the bible, followed by discussion of readers.

Stopping a Suicide - Jewish perspective of suicide. Discussion of exceptions where suicide is permitted, like the suicide of king Saul.

Ask the Rabbi - Burying a Suicide - Rabbi Shraga Simmons explains Jewish law regarding the burying of a suicide.

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