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Abstract
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Life is a precious and fortunately tenacious also. That is why we see people struggling and living in spite of almost insurmountable difficulties for e.g. natural disasters, wars, poverty and unbearable personal loss and grief.
But there are some, who through loss of hope, give up the struggle and end life-commit suicide. Open any news paper and you will see the news of suicides prominently displayed. Suicide by students, suicides of newly married brides, parents killing their children and committing suicide and in recent years ' Farmers Suicides'.
"Suicide means deliberately and intentionally killing oneself."
Emily [sic] Durkhim, a French Sociologist (1897) has defined suicide as follows.
" The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly from a positive and negative act of the victim itself, which he knows will produce the result."
In the recent years 'Suicidology' has been classified as a independent branch of Psychology. Edwin S. Shncidman introduced the term 'Suicidology.'
Suicidolgy studied not only successful suicide and attempted suicide but also partial self destruction, suicidal ideation, parasuicide and self destructive behavior and attitudes. (Maris, Berman and Silverman-2010)
Suicide is a personal act but the reasons behind it are varied Biological, Somatic, Psychological, Familial, Social, Financial, Religious ect.
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