Free Essay About Suicide Seekers

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According to Shneidman, suicide is a death on purpose, a self-imposed death in which a person ends one’s life intentionally, with a sensible effort. Shneidman categorized people into four kinds who deliberately seek death, namely the death seekers, death initiators, death ignorers and death darers. Death seekers undoubtedly aim to end their lives. Death initiators focus on their lives as they are certain that the process of death is currently underway. Death ignorers do not believe that their self-imposed death means the end of their way of life, and finally the Death darers have varied emotional state about death, and they display it in the death act, by indulging in death defying activities, and they are also known as thrill seekers.
Example of death seeker; In Flanderization, Sweden the stories of elderly Vikings throwing themself of cliffs in order to prove that they did not fear death, turned into tales of people pushing their elderly relatives off cliffs . In death seekers the singleness of purpose lasts for a short time and it may change to confusion in the next hour. An example of death initiator is, robust novelist Ernest Hemingway being profoundly concerned about his failing body as he approached his 62nd birthday, a concern that a few observers believe was at the center of his suicide .
Death ignorers normally believe that they are compromising the current lives for a happier life. For example, the Heaven’s Gate, a religious Millenarian group based in San Diego, California included a group of 39 people who alleged that death would allow them to meet an Unidentified flying object (UFO) behind the Hale-Bopp comet, and death would bring them a better life . Death darers flirt with death by engaging in dare-devil activities, for example, Heath Ledger, the Hollywood actor was a death darer who died from an accidental prescription drug overdose, which doctors would never prescribe together .

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