Year: 2002 Source: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002. p.131-152 SIEC No: 20020920

Discusses the pervasiveness of suicide, the history of suicide, suicidal behaviour as a cry for help, what to do if confronted with a friend’s thoughts of suicide, contemporary issues in suicide, meanings of suicide, the etiology of suicide, suicide & the elderly, suicide & mental illness, myths about suicide, rational suicide, coping with the suicide of a loved one, & the Internet & support groups.