Ch 10 - Suicide Flashcards
(32 cards)
What is suicide?
Is suicide increasing, decreasing, or stable?
What are some demographics on suicide?
What role do firearms play in suicide?
What does it mean that there are suicide hot spots?
What is a point cluster?
What is a mass cluster?
What region has the highest suicide rate? Why?
What is suicide ideation?
What are egoistic, altruistic, anomic, and fatalistic suicides?
What are regulation and integration? What is research telling us about regulation, integration, and suicide?
What role does religion play in suicide?
What role does subculture play in suicide?
What is social capital? What role does social capital play in suicide?
Why do we find that wealthier individuals are more likely to omit suicide?
What is euthanasia? What is physician assisted suicide?
Who was Jack Kevorkian?
What does the public think about physician-assisted suicide?
Why do elderly individuals commit suicide?
What Why do elderly individuals commit suicide at high rates?
is the American Medical Association’s three main reasons that the elderly commit suicide at high rates?
Who was Brittany Maynard?
What is the Death with Dignity Act?
What do the data on physician-assisted suicide tell us?
