Suicide: The Four Causes And Types Of Suicide

Suicide is any death which result from directly or indirectly, positive (e.g. shooting oneself) or negative act (such as refuse to eat) done by the victim himself (Durkheim, 1951).According to Durkheim, there are four types of suicide: egoistic suicide, altruistic suicide, anomic suicide, fatalistic suicide (Durkheim, 1951). Egoistic suicide relates to the individual having very less social interaction and family bonding. In the altruistic suicide, involvement of social groups are more and the expectations from the group are too high such as sacrifice for a religion .For example suicide bomb (victim kill oneself to fulfil norms and goal of group). The victim in anomic suicide type is under so much stress and frustration such as if there is great financial loss. In fatalistic suicide, when people are kept under strict regulations, so no self or individuality life. This is rare in this world .Individual in the cities are treated as slaves , so get frustrated from their slavery lives victim commit suicide (Durkheim ,1951). Risk factors for suicides are mental disorder particularly depression, feeling of hopelessness, loneliness, family history of suicide or genetic predisposition , previous suicide attempts, addictive to drugs , religious beliefs, depressed from physical disabilities, easy access to lethal methods ,unemployment, poverty (McLean et al. ,2008).There