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For this assignment, I'd like you to read the following links on suicide behavior.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/suicide/DS01062

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/suicide/MH00054

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/suicide/MH00058

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/suicide/MH00048

One more of your choosing (provide link).

Next, write a summary of what you learned plus your opinions and insight on this topic.

Here are some questions to consider if you are having trouble getting started: What were you most surprised about in your reading? What are you most interested in? What is your evaluation of the quality of the resources you read? Can  suicide be conceptualized as violent behavior? Why or why not?

Go here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/407/the-bridge

Click on 'play episode'. Listen to Act 1 (about 15 minutes long).

What are your thoughts on this piece? Do people have a right to kill themselves? Does this self-proclaimed watchmen have the right to try to stop them?

From Post Secret http://www.postsecret.com/

Here's yet another story of teens who committed suicide, possibly due to school bullying. Do you think these young people were already prone to commit suicide and the bullying tipped them over the edge? Or was bullying the causal factor?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/lance-lundsten-tiffani-maxwell-suicide-bullying_n_810201.html

"Two teenage high school students reportedly committed suicide this weekend in separate incidents, and friends and family of both say they were harassed and bullied at school. "