Can anyone recommend some good books on suicide?

[Dragonfly Jones]

Need to read something for research purposes

 

[Type Username Here]

Need to read something for research purposes

This should help you go through with it:

 

[88m3]

Never understood why you would read about something you can just go out and do.

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

Never understood why you would read about something you can just go out and do.

I'm not trying to commit that. Just curious about the subject and the psychology behind it.


It happens too often to be ignored


I read somewhere that Dolphins sometimes commit suicide also.

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Read up on the Japanese Kamikaze pilots. The notes they wrote to their fam and how they felt to give up their lives for glory despite knowing the nations inevitable loss.

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

Read up on the Japanese Kamikaze pilots. The notes they wrote to their fam and how they felt to give up their lives for glory despite knowing the nations inevitable loss.

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Japs are mainly atheist right? It's not like Muslims who commit terrorist attacks thinking they'll wake up in heaven afterwards


These dudes know this is it and are still willing to go all out for their cause

 

[JahFocus CS]

Japs are mainly atheist right? It's not like Muslims who commit terrorist attacks thinking they'll wake up in heaven afterwards


These dudes know this is it and are still willing to go all out for their cause

First off, and at the use of what is widely considered a slur.

Historically, many Japanese were Shinto and Buddhist. Religion in East Asia was historically very different from the Western religions, however, in terms of institutionalization and practice. The concept of god(s) was/is very different. So maybe not atheist... just something different.

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

First off, and at the use of what is widely considered a slur.

Historically, many Japanese were Shinto and Buddhist. Religion in East Asia was historically very different from the Western religions, however, in terms of institutionalization and practice. The concept of god(s) was/is very different. So maybe not atheist... just something different.

Buddhist are atheist in my book, I consider myself an agnostic/atheist/Buddhist

 

[Poitier]

Hamlet

 

[Dragonfly Jones]

Just copped this joint based on reviews

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind. It is critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand this tragic epidemic.

 

[Mr Rager]

First off, and at the use of what is widely considered a slur.

Historically, many Japanese were Shinto and Buddhist. Religion in East Asia was historically very different from the Western religions, however, in terms of institutionalization and practice. The concept of god(s) was/is very different. So maybe not atheist... just something different.

The Emperor was seen as "God" status, which is why Kamikazes were so willing to give their lives up for the cause. Not to mention their families and themselves would be honored at a shrine that was visited by the Emperor, which was their version of "heaven"

 

[JahFocus CS]

The Emperor was seen as "God" status, which is why Kamikazes were so willing to give their lives up for the cause. Not to mention their families and themselves would be honored at a shrine that was visited by the Emperor, which was their version of "heaven"

True, but Shinto has a long history before the State Shinto (basically originating in the Meiji Era as Japan became a capitalist state) what you wrote about above is characteristic of.

 

[eXodus]

Shadow on my soul

"An unusual autobiographical look at child abuse is a study of the erosion of a little girl's sense of self-worth and destruction of a family through parents' lies and falsifications--and the lasting effects on all members of the family."


bought this for a friend who had habitual suicide ideations. we had a fall out b4 she ever got a chance to read it tho.