suicide

Working with rebels to bring down The Program, a suicide prevention treatment in which painful memories are erased, Sloane and James consider taking The Treatment to unlock their memories.

Kenny threatens to kill himself, thinking it will help him get his way, but when he winds up in the hospital, he learns that suicide is nothing to joke about and forms a relationship with Miss Tina, who teaches him better ways to express his anger and get his needs met.

Since her brother, Tyler, committed suicide, Lex has been trying to keep her grief locked away, and to forget about what happened that night. But as she starts putting her life, her family, and her friendships back together, Lex is haunted by a secret she hasn't told anyone -- a text Tyler sent, that could have changed everything.

"Seventeen-year-old Aysel's hobby--planning her own death--take a new path when she meets a boy who has similar plan of his own"--.

A former teacher named Mary Bee Cuddy and a claim jumper named George Briggs escort a group of troubled pioneer women across the American West in the 1850s to a sanitarium in the eastern United States.

Draws on clinical and epidemiological evidence to explore why people commit suicide, identifying three factors that those most at risk for committing suicide share, and offering advice on how to overcome suicidal thoughts.

"Provides an up to date overview of the current state of the art and science of understanding and predicting suicide....A unique collection of literature reviews and discussions...The chapters describe many different approaches which may help improve our understanding of the processes leading to suicide, and may be useful in developing strategies for effective suicide prevention." --Newslink.

Includes chapters on the history and background of suicidology, theoretical framework, assessment of suicidal risk, intervention, survivor-victims, variables in statistics, special needs, and clinical examples.

Helps the reader explore the difficult issues of death and dying. Psychological, sociological, philosophical, and literary selections relate theory to personal and enduring human concerns, discussing topics such as anxiety about death, Western attitudes toward a dying person, and children's views of death.