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Types of Suicide
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You may think suicide is a clear-cut thing: someone takes his own life. You'd be wrong though. Here are the different forms of the act of suicide.
| | Para-suicidality: A psychiatric term that refers to a suicidal gesture that is a marker for histrionic behavior, or even overt attention seeking. Para-suicidality is typically associated with Borderline personality disorder, psychotic depression, and/or mania. |
| | Fake suicide: People sometimes fake suicide in order to escape legal, financial, or relationship difficulties and start a new life. In order to explain the absence of a body, it is common to fake drowning.
Pseudocide: This term covers not only fake suicide, but other fake deaths like murder. Numerous cases of celebrity suicides have been challenged as possible homicides. |
| | Self-harm: This is not a suicide attempt; however, initially self-injury was classified as a suicide attempt. There is a non-causal correlation between self-harm and suicide; both are most commonly a joint effect of depression. A common misconception is that self-injurers are suicidal. Self-injury is an attempt to cope with life and continue living. |
| | Assisted suicide: Euthanasia machine invented by Dr Philip Nitschke, on display at Science Museum, London. |
| | Euthanasia: Individuals who wish to end their own life may enlist the assistance of another person to achieve death, e.g. by a deadly poison. The other person may help carry out the act if the individual lacks the physical capacity to do so even with the supplied means. The assistant may think of it as acting in behalf of the individual, perhaps to end suffering, while opponents regard it as akin to murder. Assisted suicide is a contentious moral and political issue in many countries. |
| | Murder-suicide: The motivation for the murder in murder-suicide can be purely criminal in nature or be perceived by the perpetrator as an act of care for loved ones in the context of severe depression. Motivations may range from guilt to evading punishment, insanity, part of a suicide pact, or exacting revenge on those whom they feel are responsible. |
| | Suicide attack: When an attacker perpetrates an act of violence against others, typically to achieve a military or political goal, that foreseeably results in his or her own death as well. Suicide bombings have been prominent in the news in recent years. |
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