Samoubojstvo - Sindrom poslijeratnog Društva
Suicide - Syndrom of the Post-War Society

Summary/Abstract: The time in which we live forces us to an accelerated pace of life to which many people cannot adapt, and it also raises the question whether that is the main “culprit” for about 800 000 people worldwide who commit suicide every year. To an accelerated pace of life, as the reason for these devastating statistics, we can add a range of “modern” diseases starting with alcoholism, gambling, depression and addiction to more dangerous drugs, which are not lacking in Bosnia and Herzegovina. All this leads a person in a state in which he/she cannot see the point in anything, has no perspective and simply, cannot find enough reasons to fight, to live. The scientific method of content analysis is used to show that suicide presents a major problem for Bosnia and Herzegovina, which no one talks about. One of the major issues in suicidology of Bosnia and Herzegovina is relationship between PTSD and suicide. Like most characteristics of the psychological state of a person, suicidality can be displayed and observed from several different points of view: psychiatric, sociological, cultural, religious, philosophical, etc. None of the above listed (and unlisted) standpoints can be completely separated from standpoints of other professions and it would be better to say that it is a complex phenomenon which is interpreted and accepted in different ways due to the diversity of professions. Wherever suicide is observed as an objective fact, as a galaxy or an elementary particle, the observer moves further away the more information and facts he gathers.

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