Emile Durkheim posited four different types of suicide:
altruistic, egotistic, fatalistic, and anomic. Altruistic suicide is suicide to help
others. For example, an older person who can no longer contribute to the family might
commit suicide to unburden his family from care-taking. Egotistic suicide happens when
people feeldisconnected from their friends, family and extended social network.
Fatalistic suicides happen when people living under tyrannical regimes or oppressive
conditions feel that there is no other way out. Anomic suicide is wen people kill
themselves after experiencing a sudden chaos in the moral order of
things.
Durkheim suggested that when there is a large
population increase due to migration or other societal merging, anomic suicide rates
increase. According to Durkheim, people forced to deal with those who are culturally
different loose their sense of stability and belonging.
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