RE313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prolonged Grief Disorder, Suicidal Ideation, Edwin S. Shneidman
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Various meanings of suicide: robert kastenbaum (2001) has outlined some of the different cultural meanings suicide can have and i"ve listed a number of them below, various religious. Meanings: most proponents of the western religions maintain that suicide is a sin. In this poem, the suicidal are seen as below the heretics and murderers, and will hang from thorns for eternity (joiner 2010, 2-3) Jains themselves emphasize that this is not a form of suicide. It is done out of compassion they say, for all the beings one will save by not eating, breathing, and consuming resources, and aids the monk"s soul on its journey towards liberation. It can only be done with the permission of their guru who determines if their motives to engage in the practice are pure (long 2009, 110-111: suicide as. You"d have to be crazy to commit suicide! is a view held by many: suicide as.
