RELIGST 2N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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She was worried that she was becoming a burden and she was beginning to lose her independence. She wrote a suicide note to her son, saying that she"s old, tired, and becoming dependent. She also killed herself to make a change- says that people should have the right to choose when to end their lives. Questions about intention and choice are essential in understanding suicide. People who contemplate, attempt, and do suicide cannot be put into a stereotype. Can be male, female, rich, poor, failures, or successful. Worldwide problem, and not limited to any particular class. Modernization makes it much more difficult for people to feel connected and secure within a familiar and predictable society. A person takes their life every 13. 7 minutes. Experts believe that the rates are actually higher: people find it difficult to believe that a child would commit suicide or be capable of doing so, so the rates for a child are underestimated.

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