Endogamy and suicide: An observation-based hypothesis

Jollant, Fabrice; Macdonald, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2015.07.010

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“…Suicide risk and protective factors for Inuit in Canada developed in the National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy, 2016 (after[6]). …”

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“…While we can suspect that cultural changes played a role in current explosion of suicide prevalence among Inuits, starting in the 1970s, it is important to keep in mind that we do not know the effect size of these variables. They may even not always be in play in indigenous suicides as shown among four indigenous groups (the Aguarunas of Peru, the Vaqueiros of Spain, the Baruyas of Papua New-Guinea, and the Palawans of the Philippines) that interestingly shares some common features with the Inuits, notably the egalitarian organization and high rate of endogamy [6]. Moreover, the effect of cultural and historical factors is obviously difficult to test and interpret.…”

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The Epa Guidance on Suicide Treatment and Prevention Needs to Be Adjusted to Fight The Epidemics of Suicide at the North Pole Area and Other Autochthonous Communities

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More and more, youth suicide in the Inuit community is gaining importance, with a frequency in Greenland rising from 14.4 (1960-64) to 110.4 per 100,000 person-years (2010-11). The huge cultural/educational changes during the last 20 years and the role of globalization, especially of the occidental influence on this community may be at the origin of such an "epidemics" of suicide in this cultural region. Recently, a political organization representing the Inuit community in Canada (ITK for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) launched a National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy (NISP) based on the specificities of this community in comparison to the occidental civilization. In fact, not only the Canadian Inuit community is concerned by this epidemics of suicide, but also many other autochthonous groups. In this context, the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on suicide treatment and prevention needs to be adjusted to autochthonous individuals' needs.

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“…MacDonald's research, among the generally contented people on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, found evidence of waves of suicide spreading through small villages. In a recent study, Jollant & MacDonald undertook a psychological autopsy of the individual victims to try to uncover predisposing factors [25]. It turned out that much the most significant risk factor was having had a close relative die from suicide.…”

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The lure of death: suicide and human evolution

Humphrey¹

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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At some point in evolutionary history, human beings came to understand, as no non-human animals do, that death brings to an end a person's bodily and mental presence in the world. A potentially devastating consequence was that individuals, seeking to escape physical or mental pain, might choose to kill themselves.This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolutionary thanatology: impacts of the dead on the living in humans and other animals'.

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Soper

2018

The Evolution of Suicide

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Endogamy and suicide: An observation-based hypothesis

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The Epa Guidance on Suicide Treatment and Prevention Needs to Be Adjusted to Fight The Epidemics of Suicide at the North Pole Area and Other Autochthonous Communities

The Epa Guidance on Suicide Treatment and Prevention Needs to Be Adjusted to Fight The Epidemics of Suicide at the North Pole Area and Other Autochthonous Communities

The lure of death: suicide and human evolution

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