1. Death is inevitable
We continue to strive to live and
survive despite our limited faculties
Dying is usually out of our control
How can we explain when people choose to die?
3. Suicide as adaptive…
Tannaka and Kinney
commit suicide to reduce risk that individuals
will transmit infections to kin
SisterY
person intentionally takes his or her life so that
members of his or her kin will have better chances
of survival
4. Hamilton’s Inclusive fitness
Individuals proliferates its own genetic material
through its own offspring and by helping relatives, like
parents or siblings, to produce offspring.
C < R * B
De Catanzaro
suicide commonly transpires when a person’s facility
becomes insufficient to contribute to his or her
“inclusive fitness”
5. Buss
“if a person is a burden to his/her family,
the kin’s reproduction and person own fitness
might suffer as a result of his/her survival.”
6. Frost
Suicide onYoung People
Young Inuit think they are
useless in the society.
Suicide on the Elderly
Elderly Inuit who would
choose to end their lives so
as not to burden the younger
members of their band
especially their close relatives.
7. Suicide as non-adaptive
Cognitions Involved
Evolution’sVoyage:
3 elements used to assess genes value to gene pool
Self-awareness
Cultural Forces
Self-esteem
8. Escaping behavior
Baumeister
suicide is mainly a means to escape from aversive
interpretations and awareness about the self.
Chandler
suicide roots from a loss of one’s sense of self
Cry for Help
Last
suicide is a social red flag
9. Suicide in the genes
Brent and Mann
suicide is highly familial.
Fu, et. al
suicidal ideation has 36% heritability and 17%
heritability on suicide attempt among Americans
10. Suicide in animals
Male Australian redback spiders (Latrodectus hasselti)
get cannibalized by sexually aggressive female redback
spiders while having sex
Bumblebees (Bombus lucorum) leave their colony after
being infected by little conopid flies by injecting their
larva in the bees abdomen.
controlled by the string of evolved behavioural algorithms
11. Statement of the Problem
1. What are respondents’ conceptions of why do people
die?
2. What are the underlying causes of young and elderly
people committing suicide?
3. What are the respondents’ attitudes towards the act of
committing suicide?
4. Who are the people perceived to most likely commit
suicide?
5. Is there a significant difference between males’ and
females’ attitudes towards suicide?
12. Methods
Convenience Sampling
Characteristics of Respondents
Frequency and Percentage
Sex
Male 30
Female 33
Age (Mean) 19.21
19. Conclusion
What are respondents’ conceptions of why do people
die?
Part of the cycle of life
Natural deaths
Body deterioration
Accidents
Suicide
20. Young
Pressure
Problems
mass of young people’s self-
esteem is hinged on their
image (EvolutionVoyage)
No prurpose in life
Socially useless (Frost)
Old
Problems
Faculties become insufficient
to create solutions
Indicators of reduced facility
include chronic illnesses and
being a disgrace or failure to
one’s kin (De Catanzaro)
people calculate the costs and
benefits of their existence to
the proliferation of their
genes (Hamilton)
21. Who are the people perceived to most likely commit
suicide?
Depressed
Lonely people
Young adults
Lack belongingness
Problematic
22. Is there a significant difference between males’ and
females’ attitudes towards suicide?
Committing suicide is unacceptable.
Both sexes view suicide as a negative act.
Males rated it as being more selfish than women do.
Males view suicide as more unjustifiable than women
do.
23. ‘There’s too many people in the world as it is. Maybe it is
survival of the fittest, maybe some of us are meant to just
give up, and maybe that would help the species.’
-Anonymous
