ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the different ways in which students tie in religion with tragic deaths that involve suicide and homicide. The first portion of the chapter focuses on students’ perceptions of whether self-inflicted death is justified. Subsequent sections focus on the events of September 11, 2001, and how the terrorist attacks on New York City shook people’s faith. While the college students in the sample were not present in New York City on 9/11 or, in many cases, even born then, watching a film with live footage and interviews with New Yorkers at the scene or who experienced losses on 9/11 led the student respondents to evaluate their own relationship with religion.
