wish,
I just went away and looked up *Durkheim and types of suicide*. I came across another one of his *types*. Fatalistic suicide.

4. Fatalistic Suicide. When regulation is too strong, Durkheim considers the possibility that "persons with futures pitilessly blocked and passions violently choked by oppressive discipline" may see no way out. The individual sees no possible manner in which their lives can be improved, and when in a state of melancholy, may be subject to social currents of fatalistic suicide.
http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/o26f99.htm

I sort of see that as a little surprising. If this was indeed the case, why is it that people like my own father who was a prisioner of war for almost 4 years didn't kill himself. It seems more to me that during the time of oppression that people might tend to fight more for life and freedom, sadly to come crashing down when that freedom has been attained.