Egoistic suicide: Thought to occur in individuals who feel socially excluded, with little social support
and no integration with society, resulting from a sense of personal failure.
Altruistic suicide: Quite the opposite of egoistic suicide. Describes individuals who are actually overly
integrated into society and feel that only through suicide can they meet society’s demands. For example,
hara-kiri is a form of suicide common in Japan in the nineteenth century performed for the sake of
personal honour.
Anomic suicide: Linked with societal regulation – or deregulation.This occurs when individuals become,
for example, redundant and the societal rules that guided their lives are no longer appropriate.This leads
to instability and alienation and, in some cases, suicide.
Fatalistic suicide: The converse of anomic. Thought to be prevalent in instances of excessive regulation
where individuals have lost all direction in life and feel that they have no control over their own destiny.