The Historical Contingency of Suicide: A Case-based Comparison of Suicides in New Zealand in the 1930s and 1980s.

The article offers information on a paper that shows a case-based comparison of suicides in New Zealand in the year 1930 and 1980. The sole purpose of the paper is to show that no single methodology is capable of understanding suicides. There are several different reasons for suicides in 1930 and 1980, including mental illness, financial distress and physical suffering, hence it shows that no single discipline, be it Sociologists or psychologists can apply a single method for suicides.