SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disconnection, Anomie, Assisted Suicide
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Over the past 15 years, more than 52000 people committed suicide. Society is far less openly to talk about the suicide issue. Indeed, this is why we have this topic included in this course, falls outside the norm, difficult for people to grasp. Ui(cid:272)ide is the i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)al a(cid:374)d deli(cid:271)e(cid:396)ate dest(cid:396)u(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) life. Used to be incorporated into the criminal code, decriminalized attempted suicide in. Statistics canda: suicide rate 11. 5 deaths per 100,000 people. Estimated for every completed suicide, there are as many as 20 attempts. Suicide accounts for 24% of all deaths among 15-25 years. Canadian vital statistics death database: collects death reasons of the whole country, but suicide data from this course is somewhat unreported. The way classification gets done, might vary from year to year, from region to region. Suicide might be underreported by local state agency, strictively. Corners biased: some identify as suicide, some identify unknown death.
