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…, depression, and suicide rate. Some people support the optimistic view that says that adolescence is not a period of storm and stress. Others, including me, support an opposite pessimistic view which characterizes adolescence as a period of stress and inner turmoil…

…to assisted death, to rid themselves of unbearable pain? This topic has been one of the great controversies over the last several years. Not too long ago if someone was found assisting in suicide, it was seen as a felony crime. But recently there have been court…

…On April 9th the world woke up to the news of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Those who followed the grundge music of Cobain's band, Nirvana, were angry, but not surprised. With songs such as "I Hate Myself and Want to Die" and constant references to suicide…

…to escape. In the feudal days of Japan, if the situation became too stressful and there was no way to resolve the problem, people often killed themselves; it was called seppuku or hara-kiri. Toyomasa Fuse, in Suicide, Individual and Society, states…

…EUTHANASIA An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS, and a father in a coma; all put to death by respectable doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really ³O.K.²? Euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide…

…suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to one¹s own head. Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is being accepted every day. Society knows…

…suicide, has become as common as jumping off of a fifteen story building or taking a gun to one¹s own head. Certainly society frowns upon suicide, but yet putting an old lady or a man in a coma to death is being accepted every day. Society knows that suicide…

…are hopelessly sick or injured for reasons of mercy." It means to end a life or quicken death. Euthanasia is also known as "doctor-assisted suicide". In current times, the work euthanasia now means to do something about achieving a good death. There are two…

….” In these instances, death is seen as a blessing, or deliverance. If death is inevitable, and the only obstacle between the patient and death is pain, suffering, and the terrible indignities of being unable to care for one’s own body, then assisted suicide becomes…

…of sociology. In order to understand how sociological imagination relates to contemporary issues such as gambling, unemployment and suicide you must understand how the two spheres of sociological understanding operate. Private troubles occur within an individual…