Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: This book is a product of research on suicide and is pioneering in the city of Santa Marta and the department of Magdalena regarding the topic. For these two territorial entities, it is much more valuable since it contains statistics on completed suicide events in the last ten years. Although statistics change year after year, we consider that this will not happen with this book, given the different content of the statistical tables. The latter are easy to achieve and update by those readers who wish to apply the knowledge we provide and thus contribute to suicide prevention. Suicide, an event so close and so common to the fragile human condition, must be studied and understood with a giant magnifying glass at the dawn of the 21st century, placing ourselves in two historical moments: classical antiquity and modernity. Otherwise, there is a risk of pigeonholing the behavior of the men and women who populate this planet INSERT INTO the implacable hypotheses of science. As an added value, the results of this research are also presented in the form of a primer to achieve easy understanding when reading, and above all so that this knowledge can be applied in the great work that must be done in the prevention and reduction of suicide as a problem of current societies.