Index
Note: Page numbers followed by “f” refer to figures.
A
interpersonal violence,
127
male suicide victims,
126
Advice, expressed in the notes,
44
African Americans,
2–3,
6–7, ,
13,
23,
58,
131–132,
132–133,
133,
196,
197
distrust of the medical community,
133
mortality from suicide,
13
black soldiers,
Afterlife and morality of suicide, expressed in notes,
43–44,
78,
78
Alienation, as motivation for suicide,
117–118
Amantacha (Louys de Saincte Foy),
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP),
187
Apology, expressed in notes,
37–40
B
The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver),
154
Black Robes,
Blame,
18,
54,
54–55,
61,
62,
77,
82,
85,
89,
99,
107
C
Capacity to commit suicide,
18–19
among Air Force personnel and their families,
61
average age of victims,
27
categories that received no support or weak support,
114–119
gender differences,
27–28
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
165
bipolar disorder (BD),
156,
156
dementia and anxiety,
163
severe persistent mental illness (SPMI),
147–148,
148
most common motivation for,
29,
29–30
seasonality (month chosen),
28
substance abuse, as risk factor,
29
Civil Rights Act of 1964,
10–11,
13
Cognitive theories of suicide,
20–21
D
De Charlevoix, Pierre,
Dietary habits and suicide risk,
186–187
Driving under the influence, as risk factor for suicide,
170–174
E
Edwards, Jonathan, ,
Emotions expressed in the notes,
45–48
Equation for suicide scenario,
185–186
Escape, as a motivation for suicide
from adverse life circumstances,
55,
56
due to lost romantic relationships,
76
expressed in notes,
40–41
from multiple issues,
73–80
by people experiencing depression,
153
victims with mental illness,
82
Ethnic diversity in suicide,
58,
138
escaping psychological pain,
136
rates for white men, , ,
10,
14–15,
23,
27–28,
52,
53,
62–63,
66,
86,
132–133,
133,
141–142,
206,
220–221
religious beliefs and religiosity between blacks and whites,
133,
133–134
Extrafamilial murder-suicide,
65–66
F
Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention (FISP) program,
219–220
Fatalistic suicide,
Firearms, suicide using,
28,
58,
58,
60–61,
67,
78,
83,
126,
134–135,
209–210
Forgiveness, expressed in notes,
37–40
Frequently occurting content,
42–45
G
in intimate partner homicides,
127–129
God and religion, expressed in notes,
42–43
distinguishing uncomplicated and complicated grief,
96–101
prevention and intervention,
100–101
Guilt, as motivation for suicide,
115–116
“ideators” and “nonideators,”
116
H
Hawley, Joseph,
Hereditary and biological theories of suicide,
22–23
I
Instructions, expressed in notes,
41–42
among Air Force personnel and their families,
61
involving children or multiple family members,
63–64
reciprocity-imbalance,
61,
61
related to exploiter guilt,
62
related to intimate partners,
52–70
frequencies and rates of nonfatal self-harm,
60
stressful life events (SLEs),
64
unrequited or lost love,
52–56
victim’s ages in the abusive group,
58
Interpersonal theory of suicidal behavior,
18–19
Inventory of Complicated Grief,
101
J
Jesuit missionaries, ,
L
Le Clerq,
crimes
driving under the influence,
170–174
substance/addiction related crimes,
174–176
criminal/legal involvement,
170
Le Jeune, Father, ,
Less frequently occuring content,
45–48
Love and relationships, expressed in the notes,
34–37
M
hegemonic masculinity and hypermasculinity issues and,
132
Master-slave relationship,
6–7
Media reporting of suicides,
212
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
165,
165,
166
borderline personality disorder (BPD),
197
common suicide risk factors,
148
severe persistent mental illness (SPMI),
147–166
Micmac suicides,
suicidal ideation in,
116
failure/inadequacy,
49–50
relationship between risk factors,
205–206
attitude of perpetrators of,
69
mental and physical health issues,
67,
67–68
N
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention,
204,
204–205
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI),
212
Negative life events (NLEs),
182
NH Firearm Safety Coalition,
209–210
P
Partners-in-health approach to suicide prevention,
220–222
Perceived burdensomeness,
18
Physician-assisted suicide,
21
Precipitating events, expressed in the notes,
44–45
Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative,
188–189
emergency room procedures,
213
future time perspective (FTP),
187–188
in gay men diagnosed with HIV,
196–197
“Getting-the-word-out” efforts,
223
gun dealer awareness, increasing,
210
health literacy policies,
190
helping an individual find purpose in life,
188
California Strategic Plan on Suicide Prevention,
215,
215–216
disparity between the California and Ohio programs,
217
patient-centered medical home approach,
214,
214
positive coping strategies,
188–189
positive effects of exercise,
188
protective factors for mental illness and suicidal ideation,
196–198
restrictions on access to guns,
209–212
restrictions on over-the-counter medication,
211
training for health-care providers,
213
universal screening for suicide risk,
213–214,
214
warning label on guns,
211
working at the local level,
217–222
Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention (FISP) program,
219–220
partners-in-health approach,
220–222
Protestant Reformation,
R
Reciprocal abandonment,
61
Relationship-related suicides,
4–5
Religious affiliation and devotional practice (piety), impact of,
134
Ruffin, Edmund,
S
Seasonal affliction,
28,
79
Social learning theory,
21
Social support, as intervention to prevent suicide,
100,
100,
100–101,
101,
105,
138,
176–177,
177,
179,
186,
186–187,
223
categories that received no support or weak support, study of,
114–119
Societal risk factors for suicide,
206–209
Soldiers, suicide rate among,
7–8, ,
61
Soranhes,
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe),
bargaining before death,
194
denial and isolation,
194
Stressful life events (SLEs),
64
Substance abuse, as risk factor for suicide,
12,
29,
48,
62–63,
63–64,
66,
69–70,
75,
77,
82,
86,
90,
106,
140–141,
142,
151–152,
174–176,
180–181,
206,
219,
221
among Micmac,
Catholic Church stance on,
curious facts about,
America’s history,
in colonial British North America,
from early modern period to the post–civil war era,
3–8
from post-civil war to present times,
9–15
records of,
in law and medicine
between 1492 and 1877, ,
modernized,
as the product of mental illness,
profile for particular communities,
23
as a result of religious despair,
accused of a crime or wrongdoing,
45–46
afterlife and morality of suicide,
43–44
apology, blame, and forgiveness,
37–40
frequently occuring,
42–45
glimpses of personality or talents,
31–32
less frequently occuring,
45–48
love and relationships,
34–37
organized thoughts,
32–33
phrase “Whack bang,”
30–31
precipitating events,
44–45
“to do” lists of steps,
30–31
very frequently occuring,
34–42
work- or school-related problems,
46
crimes and substance/addiction related crimes,
174–175,
175
difficulty in deciphering,
31
overall structure of,
32–34
from people experiencing depression,
152,
153
Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC),
210
Suicide Resilience Inventory–25 (SRI-25),
198
T
Terminally ill patient and suicidal risk,
194
Theories of suicide,
15–17
Bandura’s social learning theory,
21
Baumeister’s theory,
20–21
hereditary and biological,
22–23
Shneidman’s theory,
17–18
in thwarting disorientation contexts,
19–20
10 Things I Hate About You,
128–129
Thwarting disorientation contexts and suicide,
19–20
V
W
White southerners’ suicide rate,
10–11
Willful suicide,
Works Progress Administration (WPA),
Z