Types of Suicide

Durkheim's Four Types of Suicide describes the person, not necessarily the act. They are:

Anomic - suicide due to a breakdown of social equilibrium; bankruptcy, loss of job, loss of family.

Altruistic - suicide results from the over integration of the individual into social proof; removing them self for the betterment of immediate family or immediate social group.

Fatalistic - society sets an expectation that burdensome people should remove themselves

Egoistic - social isolation leads a man to destroy himself