Advocacy of suicide

Existential viewpoint

Suicide

Social aspects

* ACEs
* Altruistic
* Bullying
* List of suicides attributed to bullying
* Copycat
* Dysfunctional family
* Emotional isolation
* Epidemic
* Identity performance
* Legislation
* Loneliness
* Philosophy
* Religious views
* Right to die
* School bullying
* Shame
* Social alienation
* Social defeat
* Social exclusion
* Social invisibility
* Social isolation
* Social rejection
* Social media and suicide
* Social support
* Toxic workplace
* Voluntary euthanasia
* Workplace bullying

Crisis

* Assessment of risk
* Beck Hopelessness Scale
* Crisis hotline (list)
* IS PATH WARM?
* SAD PERSONS scale
* Intervention
* Prevention
* Suicide attempt
* Suicide watch

Types and methods

* Assisted
* Bullying and suicide (list)
* Cop
* Copycat
* Familicide
* Forced
* Hanging
* Honor
* Jauhar
* Jumping
* Mass
* Murder–suicide
* Pact
* Internet
* Pilot
* Prayopavesa
* Prisoner suicide
* Rail
* Sallekhana
* Sati
* Self-sacrifice
* Senicide
* Seppuku
* Sokushinbutsu
* Suicide attack
* Vatakkiruttal
* Vehicle collision

Epidemiology

* Gender differences
* LGBTQ people
* Mormon
* Methods
* Rate by country
* Seasonal effects
* Suicidal person
* Youth mental health crisis
* Youth suicide

History

* List of suicides
* LGBTQ suicides
* Suicide in antiquity
* List of suicides in the 21st century

In warfare

* Banzai charge
* Kamikaze
* Suicide mission

Related phenomena

* Anguish
* Alcoholism
* Anhedonia
* Animal loss
* Anxiety disorder
* Asperger syndrome
* Autism spectrum
* Conditions comorbid to autism
* Biology of depression
* Epigenetics of depression
* Causes of mental disorders
* Chronic condition
* Chronic pain
* Coping
* Coping planning
* Depression (mood)
* Diseases of despair
* Diseases of poverty
* Echo chamber
* Existential crisis
* Financial crisis
* Grief
* suicide bereavement
* Ideation
* Interpersonal relationships
* Locations
* Major depressive disorder
* Mental disorder
* Mental health first aid
* Neurodevelopmental disorder
* Non-suicidal self-injury
* Perfectionism
* Personal finance
* Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
* Poverty
* Psychological first aid
* Psychological stress
* Psychological trauma
* Schizophrenia
* Self-harm
* Self-hatred
* Substance abuse
* Suffering
* Suicidal ambivalence
* Suicide and the Internet
* Suicide and trauma
* Suicide awareness
* Suicide in colleges in the United States
* Suicide in music subcultures
* Suicide note
* Suicide survivor
* Suicide terminology
* Suicide tourism
* Suicidology
* Warning signs of suicide

By country

* Rate by country
* Afghanistan
* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Cameroon
* Canada
* China
* France
* Greenland
* India
* Iran
* Ireland
* Japan
* Lesotho
* Lithuania
* Nepal
* Pakistan
* Romania
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Spain
* Sri Lanka
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* United States

Organizations

* Compassion & Choices
* Death with Dignity National Center
* Dignitas
* Exit International
* Final Exit Network
* Hemlock Society

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A book about peaceful suicide methods

Advocacy of suicide, also known as pro-suicide, has occurred in many cultures and subcultures.

## East Asian cultures

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Confucianism holds that one should give up one's life, if necessary, either passively or actively, for the sake of upholding the cardinal moral values of ren (altruism) and yi (righteousness).[1] Which is referred as "Death with Dignity" dying for a greater cause.

Seppuku was a Japanese practice of ritual suicide by disembowelment. The Japanese military during World War II encouraged and glorified kamikaze attacks, and Japanese society as a whole has been described as "suicide-tolerant" (see Suicide in Japan).

## Internet

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Advocacy of suicide has also taken place over the Internet. A study by the British Medical Journal found that Web searches for information on suicide are likely to return sites that encourage, and even facilitate, suicide attempts.[2] While pro-suicide resources were less frequent than neutral or anti-suicide sites, they were nonetheless easily accessible.[3] There is some concern that such sites may push the suicidal person over the edge.[4] Some people form suicide pacts with people they meet online.[5] Becker writes, "Suicidal adolescent visitors risk losing their doubts and fears about committing suicide. Risk factors include peer pressure to commit suicide and appointments for joint suicides. Furthermore, some chat rooms celebrate chatters who committed suicide."[6]

William Francis Melchert-Dinkel, 47 years old in May 2010, from Faribault, Minnesota, a licensed practical nurse from 1991 until February 2009, was convicted of encouraging people to die by suicide while he watched voyeuristically on a webcam.[7][8][9][10] He told those contemplating suicide what methods worked best, that it was okay to die by suicide, that they would be better in heaven, and/or entered into suicide pacts with them.[7][11] Dinkel was charged with two counts of assisting suicide, for allegedly encouraging the suicides of a person in Britain in 2005 and another person in Canada in 2008.[7][12] He was convicted in 2011, and was released in 2015 after serving 178 days in jail.

Suzy's Law would, in the US, ban sites that provide information on suicide methods or otherwise assist suicide.[13] There have been some legal bans on pro-suicide web sites, most notably in Australia, but arguably such bans merely increase awareness of such sites and encourage site owners to move their sites to different jurisdictions.[14]

## See also

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* alt.suicide.holiday
* Sanctioned Suicide
* Altruistic suicide — a suicide that is done for the benefit of others
* Church of Euthanasia
* Human extinction
* Philosophy of suicide
* Right to die
* Suicide prevention
* Suicide is Painless
* Blue Whale Challenge

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Suicide

Suicide crisis|

* Assessment of suicide risk
* Crisis hotline
* list
* Suicidal ideation
* Suicide intervention
* Suicidology
* Suicide prevention
* Suicide watch
* Warning signs

Social aspects|

* Advocacy
* Altruistic
* Awareness
* Interpersonal theory
* Legislation
* Philosophy of suicide
* Religious views
* Euthanasia
* Right to die
* Social media and suicide
* Suicide survivor
* bereavement
* Literature
* Terminology
* Suicide and the Internet

Suicide types|

* Assisted suicide
* list
* Bullying and suicide
* list
* Charcoal-burning
* Copycat
* Epidemic
* Familicide
* Forced
* Gunshot
* Hanging
* Honor
* Immolation
* Jumping from height
* locations
* Mass
* Murder–suicide
* Vatakkiruttal
* Seppuku
* Sokushinbutsu
* Sallekhana
* Sati
* Prayopavesa
* By train
* London Underground
* Self-sacrifice
* Banzai charge
* Kamikaze
* Senicide
* Suicide attack
* By cop
* By pilot
* Pact
* Suicide pill
* Vehicular

Epidemiology|

* Sex differences
* List of countries by suicide rate
* Antidepressants and suicide risk

History|

* Suicide in antiquity
* List of suicides
* heads of state and government
* in the 21st century

Related|

* Animal suicide
* Autism
* Caring letters
* Consensual homicide
* Last words
* Self-harm
* Suicide methods
* Suicide note
* Suicide attempt
* Suicide prevention contract
* Tourism

By subculture|

* Doctors
* LGBTQ people
* list
* Mormon
* Military
* Music subcultures
* Prisoners
* Youth

By country|

* Afghanistan
* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Belarus
* Bhutan
* Cameroon
* Canada
* China
* France
* Denmark
* Greenland
* Greece
* Guyana
* Hong Kong
* student
* India
* youth
* farmers
* Iran
* Ireland
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Lesotho
* Lithuania
* Mexico
* Mozambique
* Nepal
* Nigeria
* Pakistan
* Romania
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* LGBT youth
* Spain
* Sri Lanka
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* Assisted suicide
* United States
* Assisted suicide
* college
* farmers
* military veteran
* Native American
* teenage
* Uruguay

## References

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1. ^ Lo, Ping-cheung (1999), "Confucian Ethic of Death with Dignity and Its Contemporary Relevance" (PDF), The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics. Society of Christian Ethics (U.s.), 19, Society of Christian Ethics: 313–33, doi:10.5840/asce19991916, PMID 11913447, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16
2. ^ World Wide Suicide: A Self-Termination Community Grows on the Web, Scientific American, April 14, 2008
3. ^ Recupero PR, Harms SE, Noble JM (2008). "Googling suicide: surfing for suicide information on the Internet". J Clin Psychiatry. 69 (6): 878–88\. doi:10.4088/jcp.v69n0601. PMID 18494533.
4. ^ Hunter, Aina, "Death by Chat Room?", ABC News
5. ^ Jonathan Owen (10 September 2006), "Teens die after logging into 'suicide chat rooms'", The Independent, archived from the original on 2009-01-19
6. ^ When Kids Seek Help On-Line: Internet Chat Rooms and Suicide Journal article by Katja Becker, Martin H. Schmidt; Reclaiming Children and Youth, Vol. 13, 2005
7. ^ a b c Davey, Monica (May 13, 2010). "Online Talk, Suicides and a Thorny Court Case". The New York Times. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
8. ^ "Nurse may be linked to multiple suicides, tracker says". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
9. ^ Doolittle, Robyn (May 9, 2009). "Nurse urged 5 to commit suicide, U.S. police say". The Toronto Star. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
10. ^ "William Melchert-Dinkel charged with encouraging suicides[dead link], The Sunday Times
11. ^ Doolittle, Robyn (February 28, 2009). "Teen urged to commit suicide on webcam". The Toronto Star. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
12. ^ Davey, Monica (May 14, 2010), "Did he encourage suicide online?", NDTV
13. ^ Kara Rowland (July 24, 2008), "Mourning parents target suicide sites", The Washington Times
14. ^ Pirkis J, Neal L, Dare A, Blood RW, Studdert D (April 2009), "Legal bans on pro-suicide web sites: an early retrospective from Australia.", Suicide Life Threat Behav, 39 (2), Suicide Life Threat Behav.: 190–3, doi:10.1521/suli.2009.39.2.190, PMID 19527159

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