Panorama del suicidio en la Península de Yucatán: una aproximación a las conductas suicidas de los jóvenes campechanos

Abstract

The transformation process of the Yucatan Peninsula, which have occurred during the last decades, have been characterized by uprooting, loss of identity and community breakdown. This modernizing stage broke into the societies of the Mexican southeast, generating gradual and almost imperceptible changes in daily life, but which over the last four decades have ended up profoundly changing social life in the region. In this context, this essay attempts to examine the circumstances surrounding the emergence of suicidal practices in the state of Campeche, in southeastern Mexico. We propose to analyze the incidence of suicide and social violence, without ignoring the contextualization of the phenomenon, resorting to descriptive statistics of the events, regionalization to locate where they are occurring, as well as the suicidal narratives built from work ethnographic and psychological autopsy review