ABSTRACT
Karin Andriolo has described a number of cultures in which people commit suicide by getting others to kill them. Many other cultures have behaviors in which people become violent toward others and are themselves killed. Seymour Parker focused on the stress from the environment and the child-rearing techniques in the Ojibwa culture. The Ojibwa child is at first handled permissively and indulged but, between the ages of three and five, a drastic change occurs. Amok is a behavior characterized by previous brooding, homicidal outbursts, persistence in reckless homicide without apparent motive, and a claim of amnesia. The Wiitiko psychosis is a behavior pattern found among the Algonkian-speaking Canadian-Natives in the forested central northeastern Canada, including the Saulteux, Cree, Beaver, and Ojibwa Indians. Andriolo noted that in Muslim societies, which typically disapprove of suicide in general, dying in the context of a jihad, a religious obligation, is considered a glorious death which enables the deceased to enter heaven immediately.
