Why Are Wealthy, Educated People Killing Themselves and Others in the Name of Islam?
You should read into Emile Durkheim’s theory about the collective consciousness and how it relates to sucide. Here is just as taste. Durkheim says people commit suicide for four reasons. 1. Anomic suicide – occurs when people do not know what to do with themselves when they are not highly regulated by society. This type might take place after a big change the fall of a country’s government, such as in Iraq where people would feel more comfort under a abusive dictatorship and having very little struture and security to regulate their lives. 2. Egoistic sucide occurs when individuals feel their life has no meaning and they feel it is morally acceptable to commit suicide. These people do not think suicide is wrong or a sin, however you want to put it. They may even think that killing themselves would make the whole world a better place. 3. Altruist sucide occurs when people are highly influenced or even forced by a group to commit suicide. This is what is going on with many religious suic
