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The work offers a historical review of how suicide was understood across cultures, evaluates causes, and discusses preventive endeavours. It addresses the distress experienced by families and others affected by suicide and includes case histories to illuminate lived experience. Within Ireland, it scrutinizes public perception and the effectiveness of prevention strategies over time, including shifts in recorded suicide rates and youth suicide concerns.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nSuicide A Modern Obsession  \nDerek Beattie and Dr Patrick Devitt  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is dedicated to all those who have died by suicide  \nand to their families  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTable of Contents  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWe would like to acknowledge the patience and assistance of our friends and families. Thanks to those who gave up their time for interviews: Professor Ella Arensman, Dr Justin Brophy, Rene Duignan, Joan Freeman, Dr Declan Murray and Dr Dermot Walsh. Carl O’Brien of the Irish Times was especially helpful and we are grateful to those families who opened up their grief to Carl in such a public way. Sean O’Keeffe of Liberties Press has remained enthusiastic since we first approached him with our idea for this book, and he has been a constant encouragement. The professionalism and guidance of our editor, Sam Tranum, and all the staff at Liberties have been invaluable. This work has also benefitted from the advice of Dr Selena Pillay, Stephen Shannon and a number of other colleagues.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBy Dr Dermot Walsh  \nI am delighted to provide a foreword to this contribution to an issue that has become increasingly the subject of debate and media attention in Ireland in recent years. Such consideration, not all of it well informed, is understandable, as suicide is a major cause of mortality, particularly among young males, and therefore constitutes a significant public health problem. This book brings examination and critical appraisal to bear on the issue of suicide internationally and within Ireland. It includes an historical review of the matter, from antiquity onwards, looking at how the taking of one’s life was perceived in widely different cultural settings. It also reviews causes and examines preventive endeavours. It does not neglect the distress of those – family and others – affected by each suicide and the provisions necessary to ease their pain. And it includes some evocative case histories.  \nWithin the narrower domestic focus of Ireland, issues relating to suicide, its public perception, and indigenous preventive strategies are examined. In this context, the main interest from an Irish point of view is the original, perhaps controversial focus it brings to bear on the effort expended on prevention, grappling with the issue in the recent Irish context.  \nDuring the nineteenth century, the number of recorded Irish suicides was extremely low in the European context and, despite a moderate official increase before the First World War, it fell away again in the postwar decades. It took some time to establish, on a scientific basis, an approximately accurate rate, as distinct from the official rate as returned by the reports of the Registrar General compiled from coroner ’s determinations as submitted to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) . Critical examinations of coroner ’s and hospital records of violent deaths revealed that the ‘true’ rate of suicidal death was at least twice as high as represented in CSO data. Nonetheless, there were reasons for believing  \nthat, even allowing for a revised death rate more accurately representing the real situation, Irish suicide rates were still relatively low in the international context.  \nThen, in the third and fourth quarters of the twentieth century, suicide numbers and rates in Ireland began to rise – according to both official and unofficial numbers – although the gap between these two assessments had by then closed considerably. By late-century, however, while Ireland’s overall suicide rate was still in the middle of the European range, the rate for its young males had increased worryingly and was greater than the rates for young males in most other jurisdictions. 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