Types of suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair, the cause of which is attributed to a mental disorder such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse. Stress factors such as financial difficulties or troubles with interpersonal relationships often play a significant role.

Types of suicide:

1) Euthanasia - individuals who wish to end their own lives may enlist the assistance of another party to achieve death. The other person, usually a family member or physician, may help carry out the act when the individual lacks the physical capacity to do so alone, even if supplied with the means.

2) Murder-suicide - a murder-suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before or at the same time as him or herself. 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;

3) Suicide attack - a suicide attack is an act in which an attacker perpetrates an act of violence against others, typically to achieve a military or political goal, which simultaneously results in his or her own death. Suicide bombings are often regarded as an act of terrorism by the targeted community;

4) Mass suicide - some suicides are performed under social pressure or coordinated among a group of individuals.

Mass suicides can take place with as few as two people, often referred to as a suicide pact;

5) Suicide pact - a suicide pact describes the suicides of two or more individuals in an agreed upon plan. The plan may be to die together, or separately and closely timed. Suicide pacts are generally distinct from mass suicides in that the latter refers to a larger number of people who kill themselves together for a common ideological reason, often within a religious, political, military or paramilitary context. In contrast, suicide pacts typically involve small groups of more intimately related people (commonly spouses, romantic partners, family members, or friends), whose motivations are intensely personal and individual;

6) Defiance or protest - suicide is sometimes committed as an act of defiance or political protest;

7) Dutiful suicide - dutiful suicide is an act of fatal self violence at one's own hands done in the belief that it will secure a greater good, rather than to escape harsh or impossible conditions.

	to cause	спричиняти
	suicide	суїцид, самогубство
	mental disorder	розумові розлади
	drug abuse	наркозалежність
	bipolac disorder	біполярний розлад
	physical capacity	фізична здатність
	murder	вбивство
	perpetrator	злочинець
	violence	насильство
	simultaneously	одночасно
	secure	безпечний
	distinct	виразний,виражений
	intimately related people	люди в тісному міжособистісному зв’язку
	defiance	спротив, непідкорення