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Various human cultures may have '''views on suicide''' not directly or solely linked to [[religious views of suicide]].
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== African Views ==

An Islamic woman in Nigeria once said to this Wikipedia reader that in her culture those who commit suicide are destined to roam the Earth for the rest of time as opposed to going to the proper afterlife of those who die of natural causes.

== Native American Views ==
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== East Asian Views ==
=== China ===
[[Chinese culture]] has historically taken an ambivalent view on suicide. It has been commonly mentioned throughout Chinese history and frequently tolerated, if not explicitly sanctioned. It is frequently used as a means of escaping tragedy and shame, an especially strong pressure given the collective aspects of traditional Chinese culture. [[Ritual suicide]] has historically been  relatively common, particularly as a form of political protest. 
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Nonetheless, many moral systems dominant in traditional China prohibited or looked disfavorably upon suicide, including [[Buddhism]] and [[Confucianism]]. (''See also [[Chinese bioethics]]'') However, even in these cases, exceptions were often made.

Suicide has been closely tied with gender in Chinese culture, both historically and today. There are countless examples of females committing suicide in pre-modern Chinese history, usually as a result of oppression or misfortune, such as family members (particularly husbands and mothers-in-law) looking upon them in condemnation, or when women fell into shame. In the latter cases, it was viewed as an honorable way to escape shame &ndash; especially because the(contracted; show full)mmon misconception that the act of [[kamikaze]] also belongs to Japanese culture. However, it was a tactic devised during the [[Second World War]] by the Japanese air force and was used neither prior to nor after the war. The term "Kamikaze" has no such connotation in Japanese, instead meaning "godly wind", which originated after not one, but two storms protected Japan from invasion by destroying the invading fleets of Genghis Khan from Mongolia in the 13th Century.
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