Suicide and its relativity to Stephen King’s Suffer the Little Children Suicide is defined as an intentional, self-inflicted death that occurs in all cultures and usually is executed by people who are suffering from some sort of extreme emotional pain and feel unable to cope with their problems (Shneidman 6). Suicide is seen in our culture to be something that happens to only the “crazy” people. But the reality is that normal, everyday people commit …showed first 75 words of 1796 total…

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