Egoistic suicide is committed by people who are not strongly supported by

membership in a
cohesive social group. As outsiders, they depend more on themselves than on group
goals and rules
of conduct to sustain them in their lives. n times of stress, they feel isolated and
helpless.
AItruistic suicide is committed by people who are deeply committed to group norms
and goals and
who see their own lives as unimportant. Basically, these suicides involved dying for a
cause.
Anomic suicide is committed by people when society is in crisis or rapid change. n
such times,
customary norms may weaken or break down. With no clear standards of behavior to
guide them,
many people become confused, their usual goals lose meaning, and life seems aimless.
Durkheim's Iinal category oI suicide, fatalistic, is relegated to a Iootnote. This type oI suicide
occurred within tightly knit groups whose members sought, but could not attain, escape, whose
"Iutures are pitilessly blocked and passions violently choked by oppressive discipline"
(Durkheim 1951, p. 276). Prisoners oI war or slaves who were bound into distinct groups
dominated by other groups might commit suicide in order to escape group membership or to
demonstrate control over their lives.

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