Communities and Courts: Religion and Law in Modern India

Sethi, Manisha

doi:10.1080/19472498.2019.1609259

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“…Among the Jains in India, Sallekhana ¯, the voluntary fast unto death is celebrated as the ultimate selfsacrifice, but this has not prevented the courts from holding it in violation of the law [76][77][78][79]. Euthanasia laws in other countries have been mired in controversies as well [80,81,82 & ,83 & ,84]. Suicide could be viewed as the end result of a rational decision-making process, weighing up the pros and cons of living and dying, leading up to the conclusion that living has less advantages and more disadvantages than dying (H. Van Bilsen, personal communication).…”

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Is suicide a mental health, public health or societal problem?

Goel

Dennis

McKenzie

2023

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

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Purpose of review Suicide is a complex phenomenon wherein multiple parameters intersect: psychological, medical, moral, religious, social, economic and political. Over the decades, however, it has been increasingly and almost exclusively come to be viewed through a biomedical prism. Colonized thus by health and more specifically mental health professionals, alternative and complimentary approaches have been excluded from the discourse. The review questions many basic premises, which have been taken as given in this context, particularly the ‘90 percent statistic’ derived from methodologically flawed psychological autopsy studies. Recent findings An alternative perspective posits that suicide is a societal problem which has been expropriated by health professionals, with little to show for the efficacy of public health interventions such as national suicide prevention plans, which continue to be ritually rolled out despite a consistent record of repeated failures. This view is supported by macro-level data from studies across national borders. Summary The current framing of suicide as a public health and mental health problem, amenable to biomedical interventions has stifled seminal discourse on the subject. We need to jettison this tunnel vision and move on to a more inclusive approach.

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Section: Counterpoint: Rational Suicide?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Is suicide a mental health, public health or societal problem?

Goel

Dennis

McKenzie

2023

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“…This induction widely enumerated the philosophy of modernization which has been furnished after the establishment of ML. There is a positive role of courts and communities linked with the MP and religion of various communities ( Sethi, 2019 ). Various improvements have also been asserted due to the ML implementations, which enhanced the scope of MP in Vietnam and many other countries.…”

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