ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how peripheral participants in a community of suicidal practice, children and young teenagers, are not simply neophytes in liminal spaces engaged in prototypical suicidal acts but full participants in their own practice community. Children's community of practice is shaped first by a transcendental suicidal of kin morality. The chapter focuses on how Madampe children use structured games, imaginative play, and subversive jokes to explore the conditionalities, continuities, and contradictions of the social and moral possibilities of suicide. It addresses people suicidal activities through a consideration of how Sinhala Buddhists in one small locality in western Sri Lanka become suicidal people, and thus develop an idea of themselves as people with agency within a context of suicide as something "predestined". Developing the ability to understand and practice suicide in morally appropriate ways forms part of the process through which children in kin morality mature and grow into adults.
