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The Alleviators

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Presents ways of alleviating or deflecting suicide: by attracting a potential suicide to an ideology of some kind or engaging such a person in a ‘belonging ’ activity like sport ; and educating those who deal with self-death in critical suicide studies that look outside the conventional biomedical approach to the behaviour.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

—Paul Farmer [American medical anthropologist and physician]

In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.

—Thomas Macaulay [Thomas Babington Macaulay ]

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    To the best of our knowledge, only Curtin University in Western Australia has a student mental health programme that specifically encourages ‘sport and recreation’ and ‘faith and religion’ as protective activities.

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Tatz, C., Tatz, S. (2019). The Alleviators. In: The Sealed Box of Suicide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28159-5_13

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