Suicide and Sickness in TV and Film by Lewis Simpson https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9 You need to discuss in your discussion point an example of the sick role or suicide that you have seen in TV or a Film. You will need to discuss the case and then explain how this relates to Durkheim’s or Parson’s theory. en-us 2017-02-17 15:20:51 UTC 2026-03-01 17:08:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Parsons Sick Roll https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154743536 One example of the sick roll, would be the 2016 film I, Daniel Blake. Daniel Blake was a man who was diagnosed unfit for work by his doctors after suffering a heart attack, and was forced to enter the bureaucratic and impersonal health benefits system. This system was a series of application forms, interviews and assessment. After going though these processes he was deemed by the welfare system to be fit for work. 
He was then given formal direction from the state (job seekers) to actively seek work, prove he had looked for work and participated in appropriate courses. 
He was then sanctioned and his benefits stopped, for deviating from the rules of the state.
He later died from a heart attack, just before an appeal against the state to prove he was unable to work.

This would relate to Parsons sick in that he knows he is sick, and cannot work so he is sanctioned for being deviant. Sanctions assessments and interviews, are used as a way to deter individuals by directing deviant tendencies. This highlights the downfalls of Parsons sick roll, as in this case the assessment reached an inaccurate evaluation, in that he possessed the sufficient medical requirements.

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]]> 2017-02-18 14:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154743536 Emile Durkheim https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154786545 A girl like her
This is a film about a 16 year old troubled teen that had been a victim of bullying by a girl called Avery, Jessica had tried to take her own life, and as soon as the students within the school had heard the news the documentary program that had been filming within the school had caught other students crying. This had enabled to look more into the situation and ask Avery if she would mind being filmed, Avery was a popular girl and had made no remorse to Jessicas overdose, however when the cameras had been filming Avery it had became clear that Avery`s life was not as good as everyone had assumed, infact she had a structured family life that were dealing with there own issues. The movie goes on to film for six months with hidden cameras of Avery bullying Jessica after her attempted suicide, Jessica again goes on to take her own life, at one point her pulse had gone. However, they had managed to revive her but the doctors had told the family if she survives she would have long term damage to her organs if she was to not come out of her coma.
I feel this would come under  to being associated within society and would be connected to Emile Durkheims theory of egoistic suicide, as she had been in  circumstances that she was not accepted into some society, through being bullied by the "popular people". they had made her feel that she would never fit in.
Danielle Baker 
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]]> 2017-02-19 11:07:31 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154786545 Emile Durkheim s0120145 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154929359 Me Before You

This British  film is based in the novel by Jo -Jo Myles.  It is a type of love story which encounters a sad twist.
The main characters are Will who suffered an accident when a motorbike ploughed into him leaving him with quadriplegia which had resulted in the complete loss of movement in his legs and very limited use of his arms and hands. He is only 31 years old.  The other main character is Louisa Clark, a young woman  who is employed by Will's mother to be a carer for Will. She feeds, helps to administer his medicine, and in time they get close.  They go on a fantastic holiday and enjoy days out together.  However,  Will suffers with his disability and he knows that he will not get any better, he suffers constantly with infections, such as pneumonia which had nearly killed him. He makes the conscious decision of assisted suicide and travels to Switzerland to a Dignitas Clinic where he feels in can die in dignity.  Will's life before the accident was an active one with skiing and running and generally enjoying life, he feels the life he has now is not his own.

In relation to assisted suicide  Durkheim's fatalistic approach is  relevant.  Will wanted  his previous life which he knew was not possible.  He would have had  feelings of oppression and disparity and felt trapped in his failing body. In arranging an assisted suicide he had elected himself to die, and more importantly when it would happen.  In this type of suicide a degree of social regulation had been discussed with the clinic and Will, and his final wishes were for them to be  appropriately granted. With living in an excessive regulated life of medicines and medical opinions in Britain, he had felt that others were  controlling his life, and in the end he took the ultimate stance, in having control of his own death.

s0120145 Kate Waters]]> 2017-02-20 13:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154929359 Emile Durkheim mceasters https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154985991 Dead Poet's Society

The film is centred on new student, Todd Anderson embarking on his new stage of life at a prestigious all boys prep school. The academy is renowned for its excellence and strict traditions with parents leaving their sons there in the hope of them turning into high flying doctors and lawyers.
Todd is a painfully shy and introverted boy who is put in a room to share with Neil Perry who is the complete opposite being bright and full of ambition. Unfortunately for Neil though, he has a very overbearing father who dictates every part of his life.

The story unfolds with Professor Keating, a new English teacher and former student joining the school. He brings with him a new way of teaching which goes against everything the school stands for. He teaches the boy's to "seize the day" and make their lives count which in turn causes them to fight against their parents and schools ideals. With a new found independence, Neil acknowledges his greatest passion in life is acting and lands a role as Puck at the local theatre, while deceiving his father. His father eventually finds out and demands that Neil quits immediately. After his final performance knowing that he cannot live the life his father envisages, Neil kills himself.

In relation to Durkheim's theories on suicide, he saw that it was not an individual act but a social act either by being shaped by society or having an effect on society. He suggested that there were four types of suicide which were Altruistic ( honour and prestige), Anomic ( Insufficient regulation), Egoistic ( insufficient integration) and Fatalistic (excessive regulation). 

The movie portrayed Neil being totally dominated by his father's opinions with no control over his own life at all. In the end, due to this and not being able to cope, Neil shot himself. This in the eyes of Durkheim, would be a fatalistic suicide due to the excessive regulation of work from his father along with his passion in life being choked by the oppression. Neil saw himself being doomed as a slave by his father, to something he did not want to do and his only way out was to commit suicide.

Mandy Mabbitt
S0264783]]> 2017-02-20 18:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154985991 Emile Durhiem https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154997313 Audrie & Daisy
This a film in two parts, First part is a true story about Audrie a 16-year girl that goes to a party and gets very drunk and passes out. Some boys carry her up to a bedroom where they draw all over her body in permanent marker and sexually assault her and take pictures of her on their phones. Audrie has no memory of this happening and the when she gets home her mother notices to pen marks and asks her about it. Audrie tells her she does not know what happened. the mother runs a bath for her daughter and notices that there is also bruising and red marks on her daughters body. The police are called and an investigation is started. Over the next week the picture have gone around the school and gone social media. Audrie receives abusive texts from strangers calling her all sort of names. Audrie becomes depressed very quickly. Only seven days after the incident Audrie takes her own life by hanging herself. Boys involved did not get charge with rape at first, but the parents took out civil action against the boys which in the end they admitted it and had to publicly admit what they had done.

The second part to the film is a true story about what happened in a small community in America, where everyone knows everybody. This part tells the story of Daisy age 14 and follows her to the age of 18. At 14 Daisy and a friend experiment with drinking for the first time and get quite drunk, Daisy has older brothers and she gets a text from some of her brother friends asking her if she wants to hang out. Daisy and her friend go to a boys house, the boys were in the basement drinking and did not want the parents to know what they were doing so they got the girls to climb through a window to join them. The girls being naive was drinking what ever the boys told them to drink.Daisy's friend was not in as bad a state as her friend and when taken in a room and a boy was raping her she did try to stop them and said no a number of times. Daisy was taken in to a room she was in a bad state. She could not move and became unconscious. She was raped a number of times and the boys then dropped Daisy's friend and then dumped Daisy's body outside her house in the middle of the night. Temperatures of where they lived dropped to below freezing of a night. In the morning Daisy was found by her mother out side the home Daisy's hair was frozen to the ground and she was still unconscious at the time. The mother and brothers got her into the house and called the police. Again the boys that were involved in this act had raped and filmed the act taking place. The boys were brought in for questioning and charged and await to to to trial. While awaiting for the trial Daisy and her family receive abusive texts, phone calls, They had there windows broken. After a number of weeks there has been no news of what was happening so Daisy's mother calls the police to find out what is happening only to find out that the charges had been dropped due to lack of evidence. Over time Daisy and her family are bombarded with more abuse the mother loses her job and the brothers have a lot problems from people that they thought were friends. By the age of 18 Daisy and tried to commit suicide a number of times, burned herself. At 14 Daisy was a confident girl, pretty and hoping to become a cheer leader, by 18  she is withdrawn from society and has changed the way she looks by cutting her hair very short and dying it. 

The way the two stories relates to Durkhiem's suicide theory. Audrie's story shows a Egoistic suicide where she became withdrawn and does not feel connected anymore to society. Daisy's story could show that the way the community reacted to what happened and the fact that one of the boys involved was related to a high official in the town. The town changed the way they reacted in making out that the boys did no wrong and that Daisy was at fault. By changing the norms and values of the whole community. Daisy and her family ended up having to leave town because there family home was burnt down. The town could have reacted in Anomic way. Whereas Daisy's was a Fatalistic suicide attempt due to the way the community acted against her and she felt that her life was being determined by them.  

Sharon Wallis
s0264412      ]]> 2017-02-20 19:16:36 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/154997313 Parsons Sick Role - An example of where the theory ‘sick role’ by Talcott Parsons is portrayed is in the film entitled ‘The Fundamentals of Caring’. It is based on the Novel ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by Johnathan Evison. The film involves an 18-year-old named Trevor who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and his new carer embarking on a road trip to fulfill his dreams. Trevor has had the same routine for many years, although finding a permanent carer has proven difficult due to his depressive yet, witty attitude. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a severe type of muscular disease whereby muscle weakness begins around the age of four. It effects one out of 3,500 males and there is no cure. By 12 years old, most people with the condition can no longer walk. In the film, day-to-day, Trevor is unable to leave his house and take part in things he wishes he could. He is majorly restricted and limited due to his condition. Thus, he is unable to do anything for himself and therefore, unable to work. This relates to Parsons sick role because Trevor’s condition has been ‘positively sanctioned’ by medical experts and approved by his surrounding community. ‘Positively sanctioned’ means that an individual and their condition have been accepted and people know they cannot partake in usual duties or do what is socially normal. Parson’s theory outlines that when a serious illness is legitimised, the sufferer receives a ‘lenient set of expectations’ because inevitably, they cannot obey the same obligations as someone who is well and working. One expectation for the ordinary sick person is to seek medical attention and advice to try and become well again, however, for Trevor this is not the case. Although Trevor has a structured medical routine, his medication aims to control his symptoms and nothing else. He is unable to receive medication to better his condition and therefore, he cannot be expected to participate in societal standards. https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155145569

Sinead Kelly S0306999]]> 2017-02-21 14:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155145569 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155246804 2017-02-21 18:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155246804 Brooks Suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155260510 For my written piece I have chosen to discuss a character from a classic film that details prison life in the 1950s, with themes of imprisonment and injustice running throughout. The character, Brooks Hatlen from The Shawshank Redemption (aired in 1994 and adapted for film by Stephen King) is introduced to the audience as an elderly man whose role in the prison is to run the prison library. Brooks is portrayed as a quiet and gentle character that through his fifty year incarceration has developed a high social standing in the prison environment and is well liked and respected by his fellow inmates. He runs the library efficiently and it is shown that prison life is all he knows and wants. 

The dramatic scene that highlights Brooks’s desperation is when his parole is granted and he violently threatens to attack a fellow inmate in the hope that he will be kept incarcerated and his parole would be rebuked. The character is seen for the first time to be terrified of leaving the prison. A moving moment is shown as Brooks has to release his much loved pet bird Jake, showing that as Brooks gains his freedom he is losing the things he holds dear. A letter is then read out in another scene that Brooks has sent to his fellow inmates, this acts as a narration as we see Brooks leave the prison and attempting to deal with life ‘on the outside’, from the unfamiliar noise and speed of the modern day streets, to the loneliness and pressures of trying to live and work in an unfamiliar environment with no social attachments and failing health. The dialogue discusses the fact that Brooks has become institutionalised from his long imprisonment, meaning he was unable to cope independently away from the structure and safety of the prison and away from everyone he knows. Brooks is then seen to pack his suitcase, whilst wearing his best suit, carve ’Brooks was here’ into a beam on the ceiling and knock the table away that he was standing on until he hung. The moving moment is narrated by Brooks saying in his letter back to his friends at the prison that he no longer wanted to stay “I don't like it here. I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay. I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me” (King, 1994).

Using Durkheim’s work on suicide to explain Brooks’s actions it is clear to see that the character was lacking in integration. He had been forced from a society where he was accepted, he had a role and had constant socialisation. The film shows Brooks cast out from the prison and marginalised by society because of his age, health and the fact that he was now seen as ‘just another ex-con’. Brooks committed an egoistic suicide. This kind of suicide is often seen with increased urbanisation and individualism. Insufficient integration in society leads to an individual feeling alone and on the margins of society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6H4pN36mZ8 

Ann Gale S0264776          

]]> 2017-02-21 18:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155260510 Altruistic Suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155288516 Inside 9/11 is a three part television documentary that was originally made for the National Geographic Channel. The program focuses on the September 11th 2001 terror attacks in America. The first part examines the build up to the terror attacks, the second part consists of the events of 9/11 itself, including expert analysis and eyewitness accounts. The third part focuses on the death of Osama Bin Laden and the rise of terror attacks.
The most important, in relation to this topic is the second part, Zero Hour. It covers all of the hijackers and each of the flights they boarded, took control of and what happened as a consequence. These people had a clear aim, to destroy lives and property in the pursuit of political or religious aims by surrendering their own lives in the process. This is usually known of as ‘suicide bombers’.
I feel that this relates with Emile Durkheim’s theory of Altruistic Suicide, where the individual feels it is their duty to kill their selves in a code of honour and prestige. The person under certain circumstances kills their selves as they have an obligation, usually concerning religious views, to do so.
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]]> 2017-02-21 20:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155288516 Philadelphia https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155307673 This film depicts a character who is homosexual with HIV status. His condition is recognised by a colleague and he is dismissed from his employment on spurious grounds. The character then embarks in a self represented legal battle against his previous employer. The character's health declines as the case proceeds and he eventually collapses and is hospitalised. 

This film identifies the HIV infected individual as being a deviant and dangerous - he is isolated from his workplace and from legal representation, which correlates to Parsons' understanding of the sick role. According to Parsons' ' being ill is a deviance - when people are ill it is dangerous to society'.
Parsons' theorised that the positive exemption from social responsibilities and duties associated with occupation of the sick role had a negative association in as much as the patient was expected to accept a degree of dependency which, in turn,  involved a removal or suspension of rights. The particular 'rights' affected would depend on the particular nature of the disease. According to this theory the HIV infected individual having accepted exemption from certain social duties and responsibilities would be expected to relinquish certain 'rights'. The affected rights would be those of transmission. Therefore the HIV infected person, according to Parsons' sick role theory would be expected to give up the right to sexual and reproductive freedom. 

Barbara Smith
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]]> 2017-02-21 21:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155307673 Altruistic Suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155314124
Seven Pounds

This film shares themes with Durkheims theory of Altruistic Suicide. The main character portrayed by Will ]]> 2017-02-21 22:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155314124 Seven Pounds https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155314569 The film Seven Pounds shares themes with Durkheims theory of Altrusitic Suicide. The main character portrayed by Will Smith feels guilt for the accidental death of seven people ]]> 2017-02-21 22:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155314569 Altruistic Suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155316483 2017-02-21 22:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155316483 Seven Pounds https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155316845
 The film Seven Pounds shares themes with Durkheims theory of Altrusitic Sucide. The main character, portrayed by Will Smith feels guilt for the accidental death of seven people due to using his phone whilst driving. This sends the character into a downward spiral of depression and in an attempt to “fix” his mistake, uses his postion within the IRS to seek seven people who he feels are worthy of his help.
 
By finding and helping these people he starts to feel better about himself, he is saving these people from illnesses, blindness, provding bone marrow so that they can continue day to day lives.
 
In the end, he commits suicide, he feels it is his duty to do more with the body he has, his organs are to be donated to those in need.
 
Doyle Cook
]]> 2017-02-21 22:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155316845 Fatalistic Suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155319657 The virgin suicides film and book is based on the Lisbon’s who on the outside seem to be a healthy and successful 1970's family living in a middle-class Michigan suburb. Mr. Lisbon is a math teacher and his wife is a firm religious mother of five very pretty teenage daughters, who happen to catch the eyes of the neighbourhood boys. But, when 13-year-old Cecilia commits suicide, the family spirals downward into an odd state of isolation. The remaining girls are then quarantined and hidden from social interaction (especially that from the opposite sex) by their overly protective mother. This strategy however backfires and their seclusion makes the girls even more interesting to the fixated boys.

I think this links in with Durkheim’s Fatalistic suicide, the sisters feel there is no other way out other than to commit suicide, although I do also feel that a major part in this is that their mother was too overly protective and that the relationship between them was dysfunctional. Adolescent angst could have played a significant part, and along with the dysfunctional relationship with the mother there was no communication about sex or boys within the house where the girls seemed to be suffering from adolescent angst. Religion probably prohibited this particular topic. It wasn’t just boys, the Lisbon family was too close and secluded to even allow any outsider in.

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Jessica Chesman

]]> 2017-02-21 22:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155319657 Parsons Sick Role craigbristow2468 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155323355 2017-02-21 23:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155323355 Parsons Sick Role craigbristow2468 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155323999 2017-02-21 23:09:02 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155323999 Altruistic suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155328689 Downfall
The 2004 film tells a story of the last days of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
Based on a documentary on Traudi Junge  Hitler's secretary called 'Blind Spot'. The film begins with Hitlers Birthday party on the 20th April 1945 in the bunker in Berlin as the Soviet and Allied forces approach the city. The solidarity and collective nature of the Third Reich has driven the events from the early 1930,s to the time of the fall. The Durkheimian Mechanic Solidarity of Nazi Germany created a vision of world order and what Durkheim described as the collective consciousness. Any individual consciousness was seen as deviant and against the moral order.
As the regime fell and its remaining leaders were trapped in the bunker they upheld their ideals and decide not to surrender and commited suicide as a collective gesture of solidarity.]]> 2017-02-21 23:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155328689 Emile Durkheim - Altruistic Suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155384162 The film in which i have based this upon is World Trade Center. In September 2001 19 associates of the Islamic State Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes in a suicide terrorist attack on America. Two of the planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center, a third hit the pentagon in Washington and the fourth crashed into a field.
The attackers were responsible for close to 3,000 deaths and over 10,000 injuries amongst americans.
This event is a Altruistic suicide and the militants who carried out the suicide terror acts had an excessive integration  and were too attached, thus it being seen as a duty to kill themselves as it is a obligation to the beliefs. The act of suicide terror attacks by the militants is an act of honour and prestige to their culture and a vow they may have taken.

Luka Holt
S0236126]]> 2017-02-22 08:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155384162 Emile Durkheim 544702 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155384405 Veronika decides to die.

This was originally a novel but then adapted and made into a film in 2009.
Veronika is a 24 year old women from Slovenia, who appears to have everything going in her life, but decides to kill herself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
After she has taken the overdose she has a change of heart and cancels her suicide letter to her parents but writes a letter to a magazine article, trying to justify her suicide by letting her family and friends think that she has taken her own life because people do not know where Slovenia is, and not because she is depressed and unhappy with her life, and no way to change her situation.
Veronika does not die she awakes in a mental hospital surrounded by patients who are suffering with various conditions including schizophrenia, depression, panic attacks. Only to be told that the sleeping tablets she has taken have caused a serious heart condition and she has only a few days to live.

According to Durkheim this would come under the category of fatalistic suicide because Veronika felt like suicide was her only way out of the life she was living. She was living a life in a society where her life appeared over determined.

Imelda Hibbert
544702]]> 2017-02-22 08:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155384405 Emile Durkheim 544702 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155385193 Veronika decides to die.

This was originally a novel but then adapted and made into a film in 2009.
Veronika is a 24 year old women from Slovenia, who appears to have everything going for her in her life, but decides to kill herself by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
After she has taken the overdose she has a change of heart and cancels her suicide letter to her parents but instead writes a letter to a magazine article, trying to justify her suicide by letting her family and friends think that she has taken her own life because people do not know where Slovenia is, and not because she is depressed and unhappy with her life, and no way to change her situation.
Veronika does not die, she awakes in a mental hospital surrounded by patients who are suffering with various conditions including schizophrenia, depression, panic attacks. Only to be told that the sleeping tablets she has taken have caused a serious heart condition and she has only a few days to live.

According to Durkheim this would come under the category of fatalistic suicide because Veronika felt like suicide was her only way out of the life she was living. She was living a life in a society where her life appeared over determined.

]]> 2017-02-22 09:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155385193 Suicide in film. https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155388810 The film I've chosen to discuss is "Filth" which is also a novel by Irvine Welsh. The film ends with the main character committing suicide which could be seen as both Fatalistic and Egoistic. It also portrays how someone can cover up a long-term mental illness to live an apparently happy life.
Detective Bruce Robertson comes across as an altogether unlikeable man, but behind all the bravado there is a deeply unhappy man. His wife and child have left him, a fact unknown by anyone else and he feels completely undeserving of happiness and self-sabotages his chance at promotion. Robertson certainly feels alone and marginalised.
Robertson's suicide can certainly be seen as an egotistical one because he feels as a wrongdoer he needs to be punished, indeed his last words are " Same rules apply". Even the prospect of a new relationship can not change his mind.
The movie itself is unsettling but shows the self-destructive nature of some mental illnesses.

Cid Stratford  S0120218.

]]> 2017-02-22 09:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155388810 Parsons sick role & fatalistic suicide https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155402025 In the film me before you a man is left paralysed from the neck down due to a accident where he is hit by a motor bike. 
In the beginning of the film the man takes on parsons sick role by making himself a victim of his condition/illness he isolates himself as nothing is expected of him by society now he is paralysed so he takes on this role. 
However a new carer enters his life and shows him how he can live again with the condition and how it doesn't need to hold him back there are still some things he can enjoy. The film shows how one does not have to take on the sick role and can continue and try gain some normality regardless. However it could be argued that this is comparable to a chronic illness and parsons sick role can not be applied to chronic illness'.
The man in this film does discover how much of life he can have and how he can live with the condition however when leading a very fast paced lifestyle before his accident he feels trapped by his body and see no other way out other than to end his life. I would say this could be applied as a fatalistic suicide as he sees no other option. 


Alexandra Muir 544706 ]]> 2017-02-22 10:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155402025 Me Before You https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155406076 Me Before You
This film is based on a novel written by Jo-Jo Myles which is called ‘the same name’. There is two main characters. The first is Louisa Clark she is a woman who is happy and outgoing. She gets employed by Wills mother as a carer. She is there to help along with everyday tasks and in time they get very close. The second character is Will. Will had suffered an accident with a motorbike when it hit him it left him partially paralyzed in which he lost movement of his legs and didn’t have a lot of movement in his arms and his hands. Before the accident, he was very active. Together both characters share a lot of memories including going on holiday and going on trips together. As Will is paralyzed he is very understanding that there is nothing to cure him, he constantly gets more problems along his disability which include pneumonia. In which he nearly passed away with this. He then decides he’s had enough of ‘suffering’ and comes to the decision of assisted suicided in which he travels to Switzerland as it is not legal in the UK.
This relates to Durkheim’s approach as Will wanted what he had in his previous even though this wasn’t possible. He had feelings of domination as he felt he was trapped in his own body and that everyone else was controlling his life. He chose to die and this had been discussed with the clinic. He was sick of taking medicines and having everyone assisting him. He felt as if he wanted to take control of his life without others controlling it. At the end, he took hit and controlled his own death.
Courtney Easton s0307050]]> 2017-02-22 11:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155406076 Downton https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155416162 2017-02-22 12:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155416162 Girl Interrupted. jackiecroft37 https://padlet.com/simpsonl2/kmikwaddlui9/wish/155568165 Suicide of Daisy 
This was one of my favorite films when i was younger,its set within a mental asyulm in the 1960s.The character daisy has borderline personality disorder and is in and out of hospital especially at holidays were she seems to struggle even more with mental illness. Her symptoms are severe and she suffers with eating disorders to try to control her life  and hates anyone near her. She cannot communicate and alienation is comforatble for her.
She is sexually abused by her father and after being released from hospital she hangs herself on her birthday after her father buys her a flat to abuse her reguarly.
Relating this to Durkheims thoery of egoistic suicide she feels she does not fit in because she is withdrawn and feels shes not connected to society as noone can understand her. It can also relate to fatalistic suicide as her fathers excessive regulation controls her life.As shes been released from hospital she was not being supported by a cohesive socail group and detachment from her normailty would of left her to feel separate from society as being a part of society gives meaning she felt she had no meaning for existence with no social group for support or to regulate her actions.
She is used to regulation from hospital and would rather be in the hospital than controlled by her father and as no one believes she is being abused she is confused if it happens or not. Being released from hospital means she has lost her safe regulation and now her father is in control of her.
The fatalistic side of her suicide would mean she would of felt oppression by her father as he had brought her a flat to abuse her,as she came from a highly regulated asylum with routine she suddenly found herself in an unregulated uncontrolled surroundings apart from her father who would of controlled things very differently to how she was regulated within her usual surroundings of hospital.
her suicide showed meaning as she commited suiicide on her birthday purposely to show she she wasnt meant to be born as she felt detachtment to every life she hoped for. It is based on true life events so rest in peace Daisy.



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