Suicide as a Dramatic Performance

David Lester is a distinguished professor of psychology at Stockton University, USA. He is the author or editor of nearly one hundred books. Steven Stack is a professor in the Departments of Criminology and Psychiatry at Wayne State University, USA. He is the author of more than three hundred articles or chapters and three books.

• 1 IntroductionDavid Lester & Steven Stack2 Ritual, Dramatic Performance, and Suicide: An Anthropological PerspectiveJoseph RubensteinPart 1. The Suicide Note3 The Presentation of the Self in Suicide Notes 1David Lester & Bijou Yang4 Dramatic Suicide NotesDavid Lester5 The Body as a Suicide NoteDavid Lester6 Suicide and the Communicative Condition: Audience and the Idea of SuicideJermaine MartinezPart 2. The Location of the Suicidal Act7 The Location of the Suicidal ActSteven Stack8 Suicide Away from HomeSteven Stack9 Hotel Suicide and the Drug SubcultureSteven Stack10 Back to Nature: Suicide in Natural AreasSteven Stack11 Suicide in the Grand Canyon National ParkSteven Stack & Barbara Bowman12 Suicide in PublicDavid Lester13 Suicide on Television and OnlineDavid LesterPart 3. The Methods Chosen for Suicide14 The Methods Chosen for SuicideDavid Lester15 The Rehearsal: Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior as a Precipitant of SuicideJohn F. Gunn III16 Suicide by Fire: Ethnicity as a Predictor of Self-Immolation in the United StatesSteven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn17 Have Gun, Will TravelSteven Stack18 Unusual SuicidesSteven Stack19 Methods of Suicide Around the WorldSteven StackPart 4. Cultural Scripts for Suicide20 Russian Roulette and DuelsDavid Lester21 Death by SeppukuDavid Lester22 Self-Immolation as a ProtestDavid Lester23 Victim-Precipitated HomicideDavid Lester24 SatiDavid Lester25 Suicide as the Liberation of the SoulDavid Lester26 ConclusionDavid Lester & Steven StackAbout the AuthorsSenior Author IndexSubject Index