Ελληνική Κοινωνική Έρευνα -Greek Social Research

Aikaterini Samiotou, MSc The history of completed suicide coexists with the history of the human being. “Completed suicide occurs when a lethal method and clear intention to die coincide; or what was assumed to be a non-lethal method does in fact kill the individual; or when anticipated rescue fails”(Bagley & Ramsay 1997). International studies, in an attempt to understand the suicide, have been interested in the appearance of suicidal behavior among different nations and countries. The questions more often asked are whether there are similarities and differences in the patterns of suicide, in the age and sex and how this information can lead to a better insight of suicidal behavior and of the factors that can play a predisposing, precipitating, maintaining and protective role. Indeed the results provided present differences in the characteristics and the methods of suicide as well as in the ages and the sex among the different countries (Shaffer & Gutstein 2004). Very interest...