Some Aspects of Suicide in the Federation of BIH in the Period 2007-2011

Abstract

The work refers to the culture and sociology of death, but suicide is only one variant of this phenomena.

We discuss about suicide through trends which suggest that Durkheim´s approach is still valid and actual. We think there is a need to include this kind of suicide as well, because it is obvious in the present society that some actors experience feeling of „uselessness and redundancy”. The work present, among other theories, interpretation theory of J.D. Douglas, then Jean Baechlor´s approach who insists to comprehend suicide as an act of ”resolving problem”, and , finally, J. Maxwell Atkinson´s option than the suicide as a social construct- actually a form of symbolic text. Empirical data can not completely explain different approaches in the understanding of suicide, and we think that new social complexities are a new frame of explanation of that phenomena.