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