Suicide as an imitation
On the occasion of the World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), Quantum of Science brings you a translation of this article, published earlier this year as part of the Independent Media Empowerment Program (IMEP) grants scheme. Bojan Šošić, Dipl.-Psych. Over the last few months, media titles about various cases of suicide have been piling up across Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some of these cases have garnered increased attention since they referred to young people taking their lives. It almost appears as another form of demographic changes that this country is going through – an even more gloomy one than the definitive departures of the young to other, at least this-worldly regions. Recently several cases captured the interest of media worldwide: those of a sister of a princess, a designer, a chef. Several years ago, I was on a business trip to Mostar and when I came back to Sarajevo where I had lived at the time, I learned that an unknown young ...