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Le suicide
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ISBN: 2130549462 Year: 2005 Volume: 1569 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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Der Tod von eigener Hand : Studien zum Suizid im Alten Testament, Alten Ägypten und Alten Orient
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ISBN: 9783161540554 3161540557 Year: 2017 Volume: 19 Publisher: Tübingen Mohr Siebeck

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Trauer, Verzweiflung und Anfechtung : Selbstmord und Selbstmordversuche in spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaften
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ISBN: 3892955816 Year: 1994 Volume: 3 Publisher: Tübingen : Diskord,


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Pour ne plus avoir peur de la mort : mieux comprendre la fin de vie : expériences, témoignages, nouvelles approches
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ISBN: 2841145530 9782841145539 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris: Ramsay,


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Weg was ze : zoektocht van een vader nadat zijn dochter geen uitweg meer zag.
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ISBN: 9789025960070 Year: 2009 Publisher: Kampen Ten Have

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Mensen die iemand aan de dood verliezen, zijn overwegend lange tijd overgevoelig. Dat geldt zeker als iemand te maken krijgt met de suïcide van een geliefde. De vader die dit boek schrijft over het leven en de suïcide van zijn jonge dochter, geeft een duidelijk inzicht in de zwaarte van zo'n verlies. Het belangrijkste in dit boek is overigens de brief, die hij tegen het einde aan zijn overleden dochter schrijft. Hij vertelt daarin over zijn dilemma (het dilemma van veel ouders ten opzichte van hun adolescente kinderen: grote bezorgdheid en toch vrij willen laten). Hij ervaart de depressie, waarin zijn dochter telkens opnieuw terecht komt, doet wat hij kan om haar zijn liefde te tonen en haar te helpen, maar wil zich toch niet bemoeien met haar handelen en beslissingen. Dat resulteert in piekeren over schuldgevoelens. En tenslotte, na veel onderzoekingen, ontdekt hij dat ook de professionele hulpverleners heel wat fouten hebben gemaakt bij de begeleiding van zijn dochter. Een confronterend verhaal. © NBD Biblion

Suicide in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0198205392 019820731X 0191677620 0199553181 0191542768 1280446978 0191564664 9780198205395 9780198207313 9780199553181 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford university press,

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A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide - for that is what it is - have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, Alexander Murray explores the origin of the condemnation of suicide, in a quest which leads along the most unexpected byways of medieval theology, law, mythology, and folklore -and, indeed, in some instances beyond them. At an epoch when there might be plenty of ostensible reasons for not wanting to live, the ways used to block the suicidal escape route give a unique perspective on medieval religion.

Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki
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ISBN: 9780824829988 0824864514 1435665996 9780824864514 9781435665996 0824829980 Year: 2006 Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press

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"On September 13, 1912, the day of Emperor Meiji's funeral, General Nogi Maresuke committed ritual suicide by seppuku (disembowelment). It was an act of delayed atonement that paid a debt of honor incurred thirty-five years earlier. The revered military hero's wife joined in his act of junshi ("following one's lord into death"). The violence of their double suicide shocked the nation. What had impelled the general and his wife, on the threshold of a new era, to resort so drastically, so dramatically, to this forbidden, anachronistic practice? The nation was divided. There were those who saw the suicides as a heroic affirmation of the samurai code; others found them a cause for embarrassment, a sign that Japan had not yet crossed the cultural line separating tradition from modernity.While acknowledging the nation's sharply divided reaction to the Nogis' junshi as a useful indicator of the event's seismic impact on Japanese culture, Doris G. Bargen in the first half of her book demonstrates that the deeper significance of Nogi's action must be sought in his personal history, enmeshed as it was in the tumultuous politics of the Meiji period. Suicidal Honor traces Nogi's military career (and personal travail) through the armed struggles of the collapsing shôgunate and through the two wars of imperial conquest during which Nogi played a significant role: the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). It also probes beneath the political to explore the religious origins of ritual self-sacrifice in cultures as different as ancient Rome and today's Nigeria. Seen in this context, Nogi's death was homage to the divine emperor. But what was the significance of Nogi's waiting thirty-five years before he offered himself as a human sacrifice to a dead rather than living deity? To answer this question, Bargen delves deeply and with great insight into the story of Nogi's conflicted career as a military hero who longed to be a peaceful man of letters. In the second half of Suicidal Honor Bargen turns to the extraordinary influence of the Nogis' deaths on two of Japan's greatest writers, Mori Ôgai and Natsume Sôseki. Ôgai's historical fiction, written in the immediate aftermath of his friend's junshi, is a profound meditation on the significance of ritual suicide in a time of historical transition. Stories such as "The Sakai Incident" ("Sakai jiken") appear in a new light and with greatly enhanced resonance in Bargen's interpretation. In Sôseki's masterpiece, Kokoro, Sensei, the protagonist, refers to the emperor's death and his general's junshi before taking his own life. Scholars routinely mention these references, but Bargen demonstrates convincingly the uncanny ways in which Sôseki's agonized response to Nogi's suicide structures the entire novel. By exploring the historical and literary legacies of Nogi, Ôgai, and Sôseki from an interdisciplinary perspective, Suicidal Honor illuminates Japan's prolonged and painful transition from the idealized heroic world of samurai culture to the mundane anxieties of modernity. It is a study that will fascinate specialists in the fields of Japanese literature, history, and religion, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Japan's warrior culture." -- Publisher's description.

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