Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder. I think in many cases suicide is an individual manifestation of a societal disorder.

Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder. I think in many cases suicide is an individual manifestation of a societal disorder. There's a reason Japan and South Korea have some of the highest suicide rates in the world. When death is seen as a tolerable or even honorable method of saving face, people will exercise that option. (edit: The numbers I was looking at came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_suicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_suici... which is more of the list of "developed" nations. Japan and South Korea are comfortably in the lead there. If you go by all nations then the post-Soviet countries do rank highest.)