Teenage suicide expressions: echoes from the past.
A typology of suicide expressions gathered from official case records demonstrates the varied reasons individuals document to justify their acts of self-destruction. Intended to highlight the psychosocial conditions affecting the writer, the statements suggest these youthful committers reacted to external constraints and a perceived lack of succorance from significant others.
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Department of Sociology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.