SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jack Kevorkian, Albert Camus, Sue Rodriguez
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In dante"s book the inferno there is the woods of the suicides and the harpies, where the. Harpies bite you unil you bleed and sufer. He believed that for most of us the body wants to live. Philosophy and psychology approach suicide as an individual issue. Men are more successful at killing themselves than women. It"s easier to kill yourself with guns, which is almost deinite which is the choice for men while women tend to use drugs to commit suicide which does not always work. Sociology looks at the broader outside forces that inluence suicide. In 1994 there was a mass suicide of 53 members of the solar temple in switzerland. There have been reports that people who informaion was hacked from ashley madison has commited suicide because of the backlash. Two ashley madison clients were reported to take their lives. Sue rodriguez was dying of als and wanted physician assisted suicide but the supreme court of.
