The Study of Suicide

Ariela Kluk
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
Sept/24/2019
Emile Durkheim Wrote a book about suicide and published it in 1897. He was born in 1858 and became a sociologist, he died in 1917. He wrote about how suicide can be caused by the environment around a person not the individual heart. He talked about how the closer a person's relationship is to others the less chance there is of suicide. The less interaction people have with society causes a greater chance of suicide. It’s not only caused by emotional factors but also by physiological factors and social factors. He studies different suicide rates for different religions to see how it affected the results. He compared Catholic and Protestants and found that Catholics had a lower rate of suicide because catholicism has more social interaction.
 It is less common for women to commit suicide and for those who have a romantic partner or children. It is most common for soldiers after the war to commit suicide due to depression. He divided suicide into four chatagories; Anomic suicide, Altruistic suicide, Egoistic suicide and Fatalistic suicide. Anomic suicide is an extreme reaction to the feeling of not belonging. Altruistic suicide is a way to get attention from political or religious views. Egoistic suicide is when you don’t feel attached or a part of society. Fatalistic suicide is when someone feels like there is no way out and they are trapped and they would rather stop suffering. 

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