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== [[Circumcision coma]] ==
[[New Zealand ]] researcher [[Lindsay R. Watson]] describes a state of denial in grown-up men who have not yet realized that in their earliest childhood, the [[circumcision]] gave them a highly [[Trauma| traumatic experience ]] that they have not yet realized or even processed. When genitally mutilated men realize for the first time (often through a trigger impulse from the outside) what has been done to them, it is often like an "awakening from a coma" to them.<ref name="watson2014">{{REFbook
|last=Watson
|first=Lindsay R.
}}</ref>
This is often followed by extreme feelings of hate, anger and loss. Chances are that these men find no way to channel their anger constructively to protect others from [[MGM| genital mutilation]]. Some of these simply give up themselves by committing suicide.<ref name="watson2014" />
== Documented cases of suicide due to circumcision ==
|date=2012
|accessdate=2012-11-23
}}</ref> || {{Age|1983|10|07|2011|11|02}} || Hated himself and his mother over a very aggressive [[circumcision ]] conducted while he was an infant.
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| [https://intaction.org/kevin-cagle-circumcision-suicide/ Cagle, Kevin Lloyd]<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153948390101937&set=a.453108571936&type=3&theater
|title=Circumcision Suicide: Kevin Cagle - 20 years old
|| 20 || <q>I hate my body. I don't feel whole.</q>
|-
| [[Jonathon Conte|Conte, Jonathon]] || {{Age|1981|06|14|2016|05|09}} || Botched [[circumcision ]] and resulting [[depression]].
|-
| Hardy, Alex<ref name="lowbridge2019"/> || 23 || "It quickly became apparent that what had just happened was a catastrophe... I died in 2015, not now."
|-
|[[Hans Herzl| Herzl, Hans]] || 39 || Resented teen age [[Brit Milah| circumcision]]. Suicide after sister's death.|-| [[Fatalities#2005|Lwane, Dontsa]] || 19 || Botched [[circumcision]].
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| [[Fatalities#2005|Lwane, Wandile]] || 21 || Suicide after learning of his brother Dontsa's death.
|date=2008-12-25
|accessdate=2012-11-23
}}</ref> || 48 || Botched [[circumcision ]] and resulting [[depression]].
|}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Depression]]
* [[Documented severe complications of circumcision]]
* [[Fatalities]]