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Monitor your local news for three reports of possible suicide cases. From the information provided, are any of the details presented as factors that would contribute to explaining the death as a ‘suicide’? Why might coroners lean away from a suicide verdict, and would that practice affect Durkheim’s argument that there are suicide rates in particular societies? Should we accept the WHO statistics in figure 1.1 above as ‘social facts’?