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'''Suicide''' is a serious possible consequence of [[circumcision]] or circumcision [[trauma]].<ref name="lowbridge2019">{{REFnews |title=My son killed himself after circumcision |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-47292307 |last=Lowbridge |first=Caroline |coauthors= |publisher=BBC News |website=BBC |date=2019-04-17 |accessdate=2021-07-26 |quote=}}</ref>
== [[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. |init=LR |author-link=Lindsay R. Watson |year=2014 |title=[[Unspeakable Mutilations]] |url= |scope=218 |isbn=978-1495266577 |accessdate=2021-08-13 }}</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.
|-
| [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."
|-
| Lwane[[Hans Herzl| Herzl, Dontsa Hans]] ||39 | 19 |Resented teen age [[Brit Milah| Botched circumcision]]. Suicide after sister's death.
|-
| [[Fatalities#2005|Lwane, Dontsa]] || 19 || Botched [[circumcision]].|-| [[Fatalities#2005| 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.
|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.
{{PUB}}
* {{REFbook
|last=Massie
|first=Linda
|init=L
|year=2013
|chapter=Male Circumcision and the Potential for Unexplained Male Adolescent Suicide in Northern Ireland
|editors=[[George C. Denniston|Denniston GC]], [[Frederick M. Hodges|Hodges FM]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos MF]]
|title=Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
|publisher=Springer
|location=Dordrecht
|pages=101-106
|DOI=10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1_7
|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1_7
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Jacobson
|init=B
|last2=Bygdeman
|init2=M
|url=https://www.bmj.com/content/317/7169/1346.full
|title=Obstetric care and proneness of offspring to suicide
|journal=BMJ
|date=1998
|volume=317
|pages=1346-1349
}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Salk
|init=L
|last2=Lipsitt
|init2=LP
|last3=Sturner
|init3=WQ
|etal=yes
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/salk1/
|title=Relationship of maternal and perinatal conditions to eventual adolescent suicide
|journal=Lancet
|date=1985
|volume=i
|pages=624-627
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Depression]]
* [[Documented severe complications of circumcision]]
* [[Fatalities]]
* [[Psychological issues of male circumcision]]
* [[Trauma]]
{{REF}}
[[Category:Circumcision risk]]
[[Category:Psychology]]
[[Category:Suicide]]
[[Category:Term]]
[[de:Freitod]]