Suicide is a highly personal action that has profound interpersonal, cultural, and religious significance. Attitudes toward suicide vary, but are never neutral. The author of Suicide: A European Perspective, Nils RetterstØl, is a world-recognized expert in the field of suicidology. In this small, highly approachable book, he condenses his forty years of clinical experience with a scholarly review of an extensive body of data on the complex subject of suicide. This is a jargon-free