The document discusses Durkheim's sociological theories on suicide. Durkheim established that suicide rates are higher among certain demographic groups, such as men, singles, the unmarried, Protestants. He identified four main types of suicide: egoistic, altruistic, anomic, and fatalistic. The document then discusses reasons for and statistics on suicide in Pakistan, ways it is committed, effects on survivors, and strategies for prevention.

9. WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT SUICIDES IN PAKISTAN?

14. "Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer." Arthur Schopenhauer