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Free Download Suicide: Understanding and Ending a National Tragedy by John Bateson
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 1421449412 | 320 pages | PDF | 3.22 Mb
An urgent call to action on a rising―and preventable―trend.

Free Download Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide By Thomas Szasz
2002 | 198 Pages | ISBN: 0815607555 | EPUB | 1 MB
Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual’s right to choose F a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the psychiatric medical establishment to treat individuals in a manner that is disturbingly inhumane. Society’s penchant for defining behavior it terms objectionable as a disease has created a psychiatric establishment that exerts far too much influence over how and when we choose to die. In a compelling argument that clearly and intelligently addresses one of the most significant ethical issues of our time, Szasz compares suicide to other practices that historically began as sins, became crimes, and now arc seen as mental illnesses.

Free Download Amresh Shrivastava, "Suicide from a Global Perspective: Psychosocial Approaches "
English | ISBN: 1614709653 | 2011 | 233 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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Free Download Walter L. Perry, "Predicting Suicide Attacks: Integrating Spatial, Temporal, and Social Features of Terrorist Attack Targets"
English | ISBN: 0833078003 | 2013 | 112 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial features. This test case focused on terrorist bombing incidents in Israel, but the findings indicate that the methodology merits further exploration.

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.