1 Introduction David Lester & Steven Stack2 Ritual, Dramatic Performance, and Suicide: An Anthropological Perspective Joseph RubensteinPart 1. The Suicide Note3 The Presentation of the Self in Suicide Notes 1 David Lester & Bijou Yang4 Dramatic Suicide Notes David Lester5 The Body as a Suicide Note David Lester6 Suicide and the Communicative Condition: Audience and the Idea of Suicide Jermaine MartinezPart 2. The Location of the Suicidal Act7 The Location of the Suicidal Act Steven Stack8 Suicide Away from Home Steven Stack9 Hotel Suicide and the Drug Subculture Steven Stack10 Back to Nature: Suicide in Natural Areas Steven Stack11 Suicide in the Grand Canyon National Park Steven Stack & Barbara Bowman12 Suicide in Public David Lester13 Suicide on Television and Online David LesterPart 3. The Methods Chosen for Suicide14 The Methods Chosen for Suicide David Lester15 The Rehearsal: Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior as a Precipitant of Suicide John F. Gunn III16 Suicide by Fire: Ethnicity as a Predictor of Self-Immolation in the United States Steven Stack & Seth B. Abrutyn17 Have Gun, Will Travel Steven Stack18 Unusual Suicides Steven Stack19 Methods of Suicide Around the World Steven StackPart 4. Cultural Scripts for Suicide20 Russian Roulette and Duels David Lester21 Death by Seppuku David Lester22 Self-Immolation as a Protest David Lester23 Victim-Precipitated Homicide David Lester24 Sati David Lester25 Suicide as the Liberation of the Soul David Lester26 Conclusion David Lester & Steven StackAbout the AuthorsSenior Author IndexSubject Index