Documenting the quick and the dead: A study of suicide case files in a coroner’s office.

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Sociological autopsy: An integrated approach to the study of suicide in men.

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Understanding suicide: a sociological autopsy.

Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method ‘sociological autopsy’ of one hundred suicides that explores what can be known about suicidal lives.