Fatalistic suicide
According Émile Durkheim there exist four types of suicides. They are as follows: altruistic suicide; anomic suicide; egoistic suicide. The fourth type is the fatalistic suicide as proposed in 1897 by the above mentioned psychologist. Fatalistic suicide involves excessive social regulations, to the extent that it might restrict the individuation. The person might perceive himself or herself to be under extreme control of the values and norms of society, during this period the person might become hopeless and despair for ever escaping these oppressive external or societal forces. Durkheim connected the fatalistic suicide with preindustrial social orders, providing the citation of suicides of slaves and of older childless married women as important examples, and was of the believe that it is to be of little contemporary relevance. Therefore, as it is understood from the above discussion fatalistic suicide often is left out from modern discussions of Durkheim’s typology.