Suicide as a Dramatic Performance

1 Introduction
David Lester & Steven Stack

2 Ritual, Dramatic Performance, and Suicide: An Anthropological Perspective
Joseph Rubenstein

Part 1. The Suicide Note

3 The Presentation of the Self in Suicide Notes 1
David Lester & Bijou Yang
4 Dramatic Suicide Notes
David Lester
5 The Body as a Suicide Note
David Lester
6 Suicide and the Communicative Condition: Audience and the Idea of Suicide
Jermaine Martinez

Part 2. The Location of the Suicidal Act

7 The Location of the Suicidal Act
Steven Stack
8 Suicide Away from Home
Steven Stack
9 Hotel Suicide and the Drug Subculture
Steven Stack
10 Back to Nature: Suicide in Natural Areas
Steven Stack
11 Suicide in the Grand Canyon National Park
Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman
12 Suicide in Public
David Lester
13 Suicide on Television and Online
David Lester

Part 3. The Methods Chosen for Suicide

14 The Methods Chosen for Suicide
David Lester
15 The Rehearsal: Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior as a Precipitant of Suicide
John F. Gunn III
16 Suicide by Fire: Ethnicity as a Predictor of Self-Immolation in the United States
Steven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn
17 Have Gun, Will Travel
Steven Stack
18 Unusual Suicides
Steven Stack
19 Methods of Suicide Around the World
Steven Stack

Part 4. Cultural Scripts for Suicide

20 Russian Roulette and Duels
David Lester
21 Death by Seppuku
David Lester
22 Self-Immolation as a Protest
David Lester
23 Victim-Precipitated Homicide
David Lester
24 Sati
David Lester
25 Suicide as the Liberation of the Soul
David Lester
26 Conclusion
David Lester & Steven Stack

About the Authors

Senior Author Index

Subject Index

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Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior;note;Suicide Hot Spot;Traditional Sex Role Stereotype;Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis;Motivated Rescuer;methods;Golden Gate Bridge;Young Men;Firearm Suicides;Suicide Note;Lethal Location;rates;Motivated Guardians;David Lester;Suicide Methods;Steven Stack;Intimate Partner Problem;Joseph Rubenstein;Jain Religion;Bijou Yang;Sacrificial Suicide;Jermaine Martinez;Suicidal Person;Barbara Bowman;Protest Suicide;F. Gunn John;Suicidal Act;Seth B. Abrutyn;NVDRS;Psychiatric Morbidity;Grand Canyon National Park;Suicides Located;Yukio Mishima;Natural Areas;Suicidal Individual