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ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic is suppressing suicide. Studies suggest that due to the intensity of lockdown suicides increase after a pandemic. Males, who comprise roughly 75% of completed suicides may respond to rising rates of substance use, unemployment, anxiety, isolation and trauma with deliberate killing. In this forum piece, I present a portent that COVID-19 will increase the risk of suicidal and suicidal-homicidal violence for survivors of the pandemic and while facing the current epidemic has occupied the globe, it is critical that we keep our eyes on the horizon for the coming suicide wave.
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Katerina Standish
Dr Katerina Standish is Director of Research and Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, in New Zealand. She is the author of numerous articles and books including Cultural Violence and Gender: Peacebuilding via Peace Education, Understanding cultural violence and gender: honour killings; dowry murder; the zina ordinance; and blood feuds, Human Security and Gender: Female Suicide Bombers from Palestine and Chechnya, The Female Islamic Combatant. Cultural Violence in the Classroom, and Suicide Through a Peacebuilding Lens.