books.google.ca - In the popular and scientific imagination, suicide has always been an enigmatic act that defies, and yet demands, explanation. Throughout the centuries, philosophers and writers, journalists and scientists have attempted to endow this act with meaning. In the nineteenth century, and especially in Russia,...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Suicide_As_a_Cultural_Institution_in_Dos.html?id=m3pqf8f-6bMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSuicide As a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia