Suicide

This area of Wikiversity is for learning about and researching suicide.

Essay questions

  • What are reasons that individuals engage in suicide? How can these reasons be reduced or mitigated so as to lower rates of suicide?

Discussion questions

  • How can rates of suicide be lowered?
  • Does psychiatric coercion worsen problems of suicide?

Learning resources

Suggested readings

  • Suicide Prohibition: The Shame of Medicine by psychiatrist Thomas Szasz
  • Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide by Thomas Szasz

Wikipedia

See also