The Suicide in The Concept of Buddhism

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to study the methods of committing suicide and to study the results of suicide committing in the concept of Buddhism. The populations used in this studies are Tipitaka in Thai language version of Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Issue, a Tipitaka Commentary, the concerned documents, and the Buddhist scholars. Two instruments used to data collecting are 1) Notation-Form for the documents concerned and the autopsy reports 2) Interview-Form the Buddhist scholars. Descriptive analysis is used for data analysis. The results of this research studies are as follows:
There are two main causes of suicide committing in the concept of Buddhism: they are 1) inside-personal cause and 2) outside-personal cause. Each cause is also further divided into different causes as follows: the inside-cause consists of two causes i.e. physical cause such as chronic disease and disability, and mental cause such as unsatisfactoriness: the outside-cause consists of two causes i.e. physical environment cause such as place and atmosphere, and social environment i.e. family problem, economic problem, love affairs problem, education problem, working problem, high competition and imitation of the suicidecommitted person.