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'''Suicide''' is a serious is a serious consequence of [[circumcision]] or circumcision trauma.
== [[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 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.
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 genital mutilation. Some of these simply give up themselves by committing suicide.
== Documented cases of suicide due to circumcision ==
There are not so many records of men who could no longer endure their condition after forced circumcision and who took their own lives. This article tries to collect a list of these tragedies.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Age !! Reason
|-
| Brandt, Brian Mathew<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.nocirc.org/publish/NOCIRC_2012_nwsltr.pdf
|title=Letters to Editor
|publisher=NOCIRC
|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.
|-
| Cagle, Kevin Lloyd || 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.
|-
| Lwane, Dontsa || 19 || Botched circumcision.
|-
| Lwane, Wandile || 21 || Suicide after learning of his brother Dontsa's death.
|-
| [[David Reimer|Reimer, David]] || {{Age|1965|08|22|2004|05|04}} || Never felt complete.
|-
| Terrebonne, Beasley Allen<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610012452/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20081225/ARTICLES/812249925?p=1&tc=pg
|archived=yes
|title=Man found dead near Nicholls campus
|last=DeSantis
|first=John
|publisher=Houma Today
|date=2008-12-25
|accessdate=2012-11-23
}}</ref> || 48 || Botched circumcision and resulting depression.
|}
== Suicide attempts ==
There are some documented suicide attempts but surely most attempts never come to light.
{{REF}}
[[Category:Term]]
== [[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 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.
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 genital mutilation. Some of these simply give up themselves by committing suicide.
== Documented cases of suicide due to circumcision ==
There are not so many records of men who could no longer endure their condition after forced circumcision and who took their own lives. This article tries to collect a list of these tragedies.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Age !! Reason
|-
| Brandt, Brian Mathew<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.nocirc.org/publish/NOCIRC_2012_nwsltr.pdf
|title=Letters to Editor
|publisher=NOCIRC
|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.
|-
| Cagle, Kevin Lloyd || 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.
|-
| Lwane, Dontsa || 19 || Botched circumcision.
|-
| Lwane, Wandile || 21 || Suicide after learning of his brother Dontsa's death.
|-
| [[David Reimer|Reimer, David]] || {{Age|1965|08|22|2004|05|04}} || Never felt complete.
|-
| Terrebonne, Beasley Allen<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610012452/http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20081225/ARTICLES/812249925?p=1&tc=pg
|archived=yes
|title=Man found dead near Nicholls campus
|last=DeSantis
|first=John
|publisher=Houma Today
|date=2008-12-25
|accessdate=2012-11-23
}}</ref> || 48 || Botched circumcision and resulting depression.
|}
== Suicide attempts ==
There are some documented suicide attempts but surely most attempts never come to light.
{{REF}}
[[Category:Term]]