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Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition (Hardcover, New)
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Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition (Hardcover, New)
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Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation
problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in
which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else
in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as
depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word,
despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the
individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection
is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of
pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is
always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a
cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never
completely determines the decision. This book also argues that
cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double
function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of
self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting
suicide as a solution to common human problems.
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