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#562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

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Suicide Arising From Conflict

Suicide arising from conflict tends to cluster in certain patterns. One pattern involves intimate relationships, so conflict between family members or spouses. In rural afghanistan, many women burn themselves in protest of their treatment in the home. Another pattern one gets among intimates is, say, a 's a break up or divorce and oftentimes it's the male who does this. When there's a break-up or divorce, he kills himself perhaps out of grief at the end of the relationship. ut also may be with some eye on inflicting guilt or other sanctions on his estranged lover. So we have seen suicide become part of the repertoire of political protest in the modern world.

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