I haven't read an specific studies on suicide profiling, but what you're talking about sounds an awful lot like killer profiling, or looking at the method used to identify the killer. Knives and multiple stab wounds indicate rage and personal relationship. Placement of the body, particularly post-mortem dressing and making the victim look "nice" often indicates remorse. And then there's organized/disorganized killers. Organized often plans everything and shadows victim, disorganized tends to be more of a crime of opportunity, more emotional, possibly a little sloppier.
It sounds like your victim has a lot of rage about his identity. Identity about himself as a man, as a son, as a person. It depends on what the state of mind is when he kills himself. Is it a grief filled, "I can't take this anymore," impulse, and by impulse, I mean impulse. A bridge is there and he drives off the side. He gets drunk and winds up on the roof...he walks out into traffic, stuff like that. Is he looking for a way to end his pain?
Or is he so angered by the betrayal that it's the match to a long simmering powder keg. Not only is he going to end his pain, he's going to make as much collateral damage as possible when he goes. It's a revenge killing, only he's the victim.
There is no way, in his mind, back from the horror his life has become. Is he looking to payback everyone who has hurt him? If he's so unimportant to these people in his life - a thing to be used and betrayed, whose feelings are unimportant - he may want to offer the one and only fuck you he's ever been able to give. Maybe he'll kill himself at his father's place of business, a place where his father is respected and no one knows he's a monster.
Maybe he'll do something that will expose and humiliate both the people who wronged him and also erase his pain. Because that's what he's doing. They started erasing his identity, his value, and now, maybe he feels that the only option he has left, the only way he has control over his life, is to choose the time he leaves.
He'd probably choose something violent and to the head. Erase who he is. Hope that helps.
So not really BS then... hm, thanks for clearing that up. And even though most of the methods you mentioned aren't available to him (as I said in the post, he's in prison), you've really helped me a lot with your thoughts on his motivation and feelings; and with choosing a method from his limited range. Thank you very much for your help!
It sounds like your victim has a lot of rage about his identity. Identity about himself as a man, as a son, as a person. It depends on what the state of mind is when he kills himself. Is it a grief filled, "I can't take this anymore," impulse, and by impulse, I mean impulse. A bridge is there and he drives off the side. He gets drunk and winds up on the roof...he walks out into traffic, stuff like that. Is he looking for a way to end his pain?
Or is he so angered by the betrayal that it's the match to a long simmering powder keg. Not only is he going to end his pain, he's going to make as much collateral damage as possible when he goes. It's a revenge killing, only he's the victim.
There is no way, in his mind, back from the horror his life has become. Is he looking to payback everyone who has hurt him? If he's so unimportant to these people in his life - a thing to be used and betrayed, whose feelings are unimportant - he may want to offer the one and only fuck you he's ever been able to give. Maybe he'll kill himself at his father's place of business, a place where his father is respected and no one knows he's a monster.
Maybe he'll do something that will expose and humiliate both the people who wronged him and also erase his pain. Because that's what he's doing. They started erasing his identity, his value, and now, maybe he feels that the only option he has left, the only way he has control over his life, is to choose the time he leaves.
He'd probably choose something violent and to the head. Erase who he is. Hope that helps.
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And even though most of the methods you mentioned aren't available to him (as I said in the post, he's in prison), you've really helped me a lot with your thoughts on his motivation and feelings; and with choosing a method from his limited range. Thank you very much for your help!
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