Can nonhuman animals commit suicide?

PUBLIC MYTHS ABOUT SUICIDE People Often Commit Suicide Without Warning

Sometimes a Minor Event Can Lead an Otherwise Normal Person To Commit Suicide This belief may be stated by friends and/or relatives of the suicide who may worry that something they said or did pushed the suicide "over the edge", and in sensational news reports of suicide (e.g., rock lyrics, role-playing games such as Dungeons and DragonsTM). This view is not supported by research results. Gener...

Episodic Memory in Nonhuman Animals

Episodic memories differ from other types of memory because they represent aspects of the past not present in other memories, such as the time, place, or social context in which the memories were formed. Focus on phenomenal experience in human memory, such as the sense of 'having been there', has resulted in conceptualizations of episodic memory that are difficult or impossible to apply to nonh...

Commit* to change? A call to end the publication of the phrase ‘commit* suicide’

Background. Countering stigma is a fundamental facet of suicide prevention efforts.  Integral to this is the promotion of accurate and sensitive language.  The phrase 'commit* suicide' has prompted marked opposition primarily due to the connotations of immorality and illegality.  Methods. The study investigated the frequency of the use of the wordstem 'commit', in relation to self-harm and suic...

The use of nonhuman animals in research.

T cells commit suicide, but B cells are murdered!

In addition to self tolerance, the immune system needs to be regulated when a response has been initiated. Recent data suggest that activated T and B cells, as well as immature lymphocytes, are susceptible to programmed cell death and that Fas:Fas ligand (FasL) interactions play an important role in this process. However, while T cells may kill themselves via a Fas-dependent pathway, we propose...