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Self-destruction and self-exclusion: the suicide in the rural areas of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil
Authors: Jussara Maria Rosa Mendes; Rosangela Werlang
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This paper deals with suicide in rural areas of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil, considering the relation of this
phenomenon with the advance of the capitalism in the
countryside. This change has been creating new living
and working styles and, besides, processes which lead to
illness. Among these processes, suicide becomes a reality
as a process of self-destruction and self-exclusion. These are sociopathologies of the development which are created in demonstrations of mental illness, depression and suicides, driven by a model of development imposed in
the rural area through the economic incentive and, also,
through all the economic speech carrying a project of
hope. It is about the social and economic systems acting as generators of precariousness, human, familiar and psycho-philosophical costs, desocialization processes,
self-generated alienation and self-cleaving, showing that
it is increasingly necessary to think about the relation
between the social and the individual in life and death
processes.