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Suicide Prevention

Umbrella term for the collective efforts to reduce the incidence of suicide, including reduction of risk factors as well as promotion of preventions and social support

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    After the suicide of Seneca the Younger, the Emperor Nero orders the arrest of the suicide of Seneca's wife Pompeia Paulina. Oil painting by an Italian painter, ca. 1750.

    | Reference: 47415i
    • Books

    World report on violence and health : summary.

    | Date: 2002
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    The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche, commanded by Venus to visit Proserpine in the underworld, is advised by a tower not to jump off it and kill herself but instead to enter the underworld at Taenarus. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

    Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592. | Date: [between 1500 and 1599] | Reference: 2950107i
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    The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche, commanded by Venus to visit Proserpine in the underworld, is advised by a tower not to jump off it and kill herself but instead to enter the underworld at Taenarus. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.

    Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592. | Date: [between 1500 and 1599] | Reference: 2945245i
    • Books

    The Samaritans in the '70s : to befriend the suicidal and despairing / edited with an introduction by Chad Varah.

    | Date: 1973

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Voyages to the otherworld
Cupid and Psyche (Tale)

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