1. Public Suicide and Prevention
By Lauren Miano

2. Suicides by age group
Statistics provided by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (2007)

3. Rutgers
Wesleyan

4. Nora Miller
September 13, 2010

5. The cruelty to which you subject your body in this method is only one of its shocking features. Theres also the will to leave in a public or semi-public setting your charred corpse. The reality is that were shocked senseless by self-immolation, especially when, as in these cases, it has no political or spiritual motive. Without those motives were forced back on sheer vindictive rage against oneself, against the world. --- Margaret Solten, English Professor at George Washington University

6. At least 90 percent of people who kill themselves have a diagnosable and treatable psychiatric illnesses -- such as major depression, bipolar depression, or some other depressive illness, including:

• Schizophrenia
• 7. Alcohol or drug abuse, particularly when combined with depression
• 8. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or some other anxiety disorder
• 9. Bulimia or anorexia nervousa
• 10. Personality disorders especially borderline or antisocial