ABSTRACT. In what follows, we shall deal with suicide in the history of mankind, the nature and causes of the suicidal process, the biological and neuropsychological aspects of the suicidal behaviour, the epidemiology of suicide, the suicidal risk, the evaluation of the person with suicidal risk, the ages of suicide, the life experience and act, suicide and psychiatry, the treatment of suicidal behaviour, the prevention of suicidal behaviour, thanatology and suicidology. pp. 16–177

Keywords: suicidology; psychiatry; biology; epidemiology; thanatology; prevention of suicide; treatment of suicide; suicide nature; suicide causes; suicidal risk; suicide age