Affiliation:
1. Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi
2. Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, New Jersey
Abstract
A study of 40 suicide notes indicated that those written by those using violent methods contained less joy, less love for others, less humor/irony, and less thanks, suggesting a greater amount of alienation from significant others. The notes written by women were found to show less intrapersonal hostility, gave fewer instructions concerning final affairs, accepted less personal responsibility, and used fewer absolute terms than those written by men. No significant differences were found by age save for a lone difference of more mention of ill-health in the suicide notes of the older suicides.
Subject
Life-span and Life-course Studies,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Health(social science)
Cited by
6 articles.
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