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Our faculty member Dr. Anisur Rahman Khan, Assistant Professor and S. M. Anowarul kayes Shimul, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, East West University, in their recent research draw attention to the budding correlation between the COVID‐19 pandemic and suicidality from the theoretical perspective of Emile Durkheim's sociology of suicide. 

For analysis, a review of online newspaper databases (1 January to 30 April 2020) that reported suicide cases and attempts triggered as a result of the disruptions caused by the COVID‐19 pandemic was taken under consideration. Out of the 28 identified cases, there were three suicide attempts, one homicide‐suicide/pact‐suicide, and 24 suicides spanning 10 countries. 

Later, the cases were analysed according to their appropriate typology and classified as egoistic (9), altruistic (3), anomic (8), and fatalistic (8). Durkheim suggests that the rise and fall of suicide rates will depend on the nature of social change. As society is undergoing massive social disruption resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic, suicide rates may increase unless suicide prevention measures align with the current social reconstruction process.


For more, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12269