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Dying together
— suicide pacts and other episodes of paired suicides in Yorkshire and the Humber | | Author(s) | Marilyn J Gregory |
| Journal title | British Journal of Social Work, vol 43, no 2, March 2013 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, March 2013 |
| Pages | pp 298-316 |
| Source | www.bjsw.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Death ; Bereavement ; Social work ; South Yorkshire. |
| Annotation | This article discusses the phenomenon of paired suicide using a number of studies drawn from a sample of cases in Yorkshire and the Humber. Worldwide, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death: 1.5 per cent of all deaths are the result of suicide, a rate of 14.5:100,000 individuals per year. In 2010 there were 5,608 suicides in people aged fifteen years and over in the UK. Paired suicides, often called suicide pacts, in which two people die together, are a small fraction of suicides overall but are a persistent and devastating phenomenon. Cases were included in the study only when the suicides occurred together in the same place and within twenty-four hours. The term `paired suicide' is used here because the suicide pact is quite difficult to define, due to a number of contextual factors. Social workers have a key role to play in the prevention of suicide, and encounter the kinds of cases discussed in their work in mental health teams, drug and alcohol services, practice with offenders and community care practice with older people. The article therefore concludes with a discussion of the implications for collaborative practice. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130405204 A |
| Classmark | EV: CW: DW: IG: 85 |
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