Professor Institute of Serbia – For the Muslim consciousness of suicide is unthinkable – –
December 8, 2009 – 11:34 pm
an increasing number of suicides in the Muslim regions of the crisis is almost no effect, – says Professor Boris Polozhii, director of environmental and social problems of mental health SSC “Trial and social psychiatry Serbsky. In the culture of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Caucasian regions of Russia, where Islam is dominant and where a high proportion are not ostentatious, but rather the orthodox belief in him, a habit and tradition are very strict attitude towards suicide. For the Muslim consciousness is unthinkable. That is why Muslim countries have always been distinguished by a low frequency of suicide, whatever happened.
In the first place in the world in suicides in 20 years – Lithuania, where in 2008 the frequency of suicide was 30,4 per 100 thousand population, on the second – Belarus: 27,5 per 100 thousand. In third place in this sad list of Russia – 27,1. At the same time in Russia since the early 2000’s suicide rate is gradually reduced.
«We have a very prosperous situation of suicide is not the most prosperous regions – the North Caucasus: Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, Ingushetia, Chechnya. And the highest – in the Finno-Ugric regions (Komi Republic, Mari El) and in the regions inhabited by minorities of the North (Koryak, the Chukchi, the Komi-Perm district). There, a completely different culture-related to suicide. That is why Russia is not comparable with any another country, the gap in the incidence of suicide among the regions: in 2008, in North Ossetia, for instance, only two cases per 100 thousand population in Dagestan – three, in the Nenets Autonomous District – 102, in the Koryak – 98 to 100 thousand “, – said in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Boris Polozhii.
By the way, contrary to popular belief that suicides occur more frequently in cities in Russia is dominated by suicide in countryside. Another common, consumer point of view – very often impose their own hand the inhabitants of megacities. But it turns out, on the contrary, both Moscow and St. Petersburg in a quiet area in this respect: in Moscow, eight suicides per 100 thousand people in St. Petersburg – 13. And the country as a whole – 27,1 – says Polozhii.
