Suicide Notes: An Analysis Using TGSP Framework

Suicide notes can help to understand suicidal behavior.The present study deals with the analysis of suicide notes using the Thematic Guide to Suicide Prevention (TGSP) developed by Leenaars.The study applied TGSP to the 40 suicide notes collected from the Greater Mumbai region (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015).The results show the existence of protocol clusters in collected suicide notes.All clusters were evident in suicide notes.Further, the notes were classified as per age groups to find out whether different age groups exhibit different psychological reasons for committing suicide.The results could not be replicated fully to show different psychological reasons for different age groups.The present study dealt with limited data from 40 suicide notes.The large dataset could have given more statistically satisfying results.