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A moral life after a suicide death in Taiwan

Tzeng, Wen-Chii, Su, Pi-Yu, Tzeng, Nian-Sheng, Yeh, Chin-Bin, Chen, Tsai-Hwei, Chen, Chih-Hao·2010·Qualitative Health Research
DOI 10.1177/1049732310365503
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In this article we present the findings of a qualitative study exploring what suicide survivors in Taiwan experienced after a family member's suicide and how they adjusted to the perceived stigma. Fifteen suicide survivors participated in this study. We found that when a family member's suicide death occurred, survivors first kept a low profile when holding the funeral, and then tried to expel the dead person from their family. They also wished that their grief and painful, shameful feelings could be buried with the dead person. These findings suggest that health care professionals need to work more closely with suicide survivors through understanding the survivors' fear and pain from a sociocultural perspective, and to help them construct a new moral life.

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  • Qualitative results showed that perceived stigmatization went along with a deep sense of shame and embarrassment in suicide survivors.

    “Results from qualitative studies also showed that perceived stigmatization went along with a deep sense of shame and embarrassment in suicide survivors [27,48,50,52,54,55].”

    From The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences—A Systematic Review (2016) · cites this paper as [48]

  • In Chinese culture, suicide is viewed as a collective failure to attend to group norms, bringing dishonor and stigma to the deceased and associated family.

    “Tzeng et al. [48] found that suicide is not viewed as an individual, but a collective failure to attend to group norms in Chinese culture. Consequently, suicide brings dishonor and stigma not only to the deceased, but also to the associated family as a whole.”

    From The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences—A Systematic Review (2016) · cites this paper as [48]

  • There was some evidence that stigma led survivors to withdraw from social interactions.

    “Concerning qualitative results, there was some evidence that stigma led survivors to conceal the cause of the death, withdrew from social interactions or suppress their grief-related emotions [48,50,51,52,54,55].”

    From The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences—A Systematic Review (2016) · cites this paper as [48]

  • In two studies, participants held low profile funerals and/or attempted to hide the memory of the deceased to avoid profound stigma associated with suicide in Israeli and Chinese culture.

    “In two studies, participants held low profile funerals and/or attempted to hide the memory of the deceased in order to avoid the profound stigma associated with suicide in Israeli and Chinese culture [48,50].”

    From The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences—A Systematic Review (2016) · cites this paper as [48]

  • There was some evidence that stigma led survivors to suppress grief-related emotions.

    “Concerning qualitative results, there was some evidence that stigma led survivors to conceal the cause of the death, withdrew from social interactions or suppress their grief-related emotions [48,50,51,52,54,55].”

    From The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences—A Systematic Review (2016) · cites this paper as [48]

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Authors
Tzeng, W.-C., Su, P.-Y., Tzeng, N.-S., Yeh, C.-B., Chen, T.-H., & Chen, C.-H.
Affiliations
  • National Defense Medical Center (TW)
  • Bei-Tou Armed Forces Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Tri-Service General Hospital (TW)
Corresponding author
Tzeng, Wen-Chii
ORCID
Venue
Qualitative Health Research
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2010-04-01
Volume
20
Issue
7
Pages
999-1007
ISSN
  • 1049-7323 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-7557
DOI
10.1177/1049732310365503
OpenAlex
W2116294237
Cited by
15
References
33
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 2
FWCI
1.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Qualitative Health Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Keywords
suicide survivors, suicide stigma, grief, moral life, funerary practices, social stigma, sociocultural perspective, healthcare workers, Taiwan
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Anthropology, Cultural, Culture, Female, Grief, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Male, Morals, Stereotyping, Suicide, Taiwan

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