Tag: Suicide

Free Download Francesca Di Marco, "Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan "
English | ISBN: 1138351504 | 2018 | 212 pages | EPUB | 588 KB
Japan’s suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded in the debate on suicide have remained unaddressed in the existing literature, including the assumption that Japan is a "Suicide Nation". This tendency causes common misconceptions about the suicide phenomenon and its features.

Free Download Tom Widger, "Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic "
English | ISBN: 1138820741 | 2014 | 198 pages | EPUB | 910 KB
Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and meanings of suicidal practices to social processes across moments, lifetimes and history.

Free Download The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
by Doyle D. Calhoun
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1478026502 | 339 Pages | PDF | 11 MB

Free Download A M Shah, "Essays on Suicide and Self-Immolation"
English | ISBN: 9386552906 | 2018 | 244 pages | PDF | 67 MB
This book is a collection of papers on suicide and self-immolation, reprinted from the almost forgotten Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, published in 1886-1936. The book carries a Foreword by Professor Ashis Nandy on death and self in culture. Part I includes nineteen papers, analysing statistics of suicides committed in Bombay (now Mumbai) from 1886 to 1907, classified by religion, gender, age, month, date, cause and means of suicide, etc. The data is presented in a number of tables, often with remarks on individual cases. Launched by Edward Rehatsek, a Hungarian scholar who had made Bombay his home, the papers were continued after his death by the Parsee scholar, Bomanjee Byramjee Patell. Part II includes seven general essays: one is on suicide and old age in a comparative perspective, and another on suicide in ancient India. The question of self-immolation of Hindu widows, commonly referred to as sati, is discussed in three of the essays. Of special interest is the essay on the Sati of Ramabai, widow of Madhavrao Peshwa. Two essays deal with the issue of selfimmolation of persons in religious contexts.

Free Download Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide"
English | ISBN: 1951631358 | 2024 | 256 pages | EPUB | 1393 KB
"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resilience that I’ve read." -Tara Parker-Pope, The Washington Post

Free Download David K. Frasier, "Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases"
English | ISBN: 0786423331 | 2005 | 440 pages | PDF | 30 MB
This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry’s trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases.

Free Download Facing Suicide: Understanding Why People Kill Themselves and How We Can Stop Them (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR4G7L1N | 2024 | 7 hours and 23 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 216 MB
Author: James Barrat
Narrator: James Barrat, Sean Patrick Hopkins
A deep dive into a national catastrophe that examines how and why suicide happens so that we can prevent it. Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in America, claiming over 45,000 lives each year-more than car accidents or homicides. For every person who dies there are about 10 unsuccessful attempts. Yet suicides are preventable, if we can grasp the complex factors behind it and look out for suicide’s signs in our families, communities, and colleagues. In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed journalist James Barrat delivers these insights with a deep dive into America’s suicide crisis. With profiles of survivors and their families, and interviews with experts, Barrat assembles a thorough, nuanced portrait of this confounding killer. He examines suicide’s many risk factors, including genetics, substance abuse, access to lethal means, and mental health.

Free Download Jr. Joiner, Thomas E., "The Interpersonal Theory of Suicide: Guidance for Working With Suicidal Clients"
English | ISBN: 1433804263 | 2009 | 246 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Why do people die by suicide? Thomas E. Joiner and his colleagues attempt to answer this age-old question by exploring two obvious yet insightful assumptions:

Free Download Paolo Stellino, "Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein"
English | ISBN: 3030539369 | 2020 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 680 KB + 3 MB
This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide. Focusing on four major authors of Western philosophy – Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein – their arguments in favour or against suicide are explained, contextualized, examined and critically assessed. Taken together, these four perspectives provide an illuminating overview of the philosophical arguments that can be used for or against one’s right to commit suicide. Intended both for specialists and those interested in understanding the many complexities underlying the philosophical debate on suicide, this book combines philosophical depth with exemplary clarity.

Free Download Revolutionary Suicide (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSZBTJHT | 2024 | 13 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 381 MB
Author: Huey P. Newton, Fredrika Newton
Narrator: C.T. Hayes, Fredrika Newton
The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton. Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America’s Black Panther Party. From Newton’s impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is unrepentant and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.