A review by bioethicists
Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Émile Durkheim

4.0

Absolutely amazing analyses and well-backed conclusions. The only two failings are the writing (which is sometimes fantastic and sometimes lacking) and the strange veer into Protestant moralism towards the end. The last part disregards a lot of the work in the previous chapters in favor of privileging a (purportedly) secular sort of Protestant moralism regarding suicide (it even establishes, explicitly, that Judaism is the “most primitive”, then Catholicism, then Protestantism, the “most developed” of religions). The suggestions for mitigating suicide were marred by the author’s assumptions that suicide is inherently immoral and ought to be punished.