ntribute to an individual committing suicide. According to Durkheim, there are four main components of suicide that are linked to social ties. Egotistic suicide has too loose of a connection between a person and other people and/or institutions in society. There is also a low amount of interaction with others in society (Hurst 2000: 55-56). Common examples of Egotistic suicide can be contributed to low amounts of religious ties, family ties, money, and jobs. All of these factors would help contribute to a high rate of suicide. Altruistic suicide has too much or a too extensive integration into social groups. There becomes a loss of individuality due to too many social ties (Hurst 2000: 55-56). An example of Altruistic suicide can be seen in the Islamic terrorist organizations. Anomic suicide has too little regulation and normative constraint, and behaviors are not regulated very well (Hurst 2000: 55-56). Teenagers can be viewed as an example of Anomic suicide. Fatalistic suicide has the characteristics of too much regulation and too restrictive of norms. It is a situation of complete oppression (Hurst 2000: 55-56). This component of suicide is common amongst slaves. Durkheim’s view on sociology and suicide was seen as an objective science. He viewed the idea and act of suicide as being related entirely to social facts and society. In his eye, there were social facts that existed in society. Social facts are known as common ways of acting which generally accepted throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independently of its individual manifestations. Durkheim thought of social facts as being external, coercive, and having existed prior to the individual. They exist on an individual and group level, as well as places where practices and belief have been in existence. These social facts existed externally to individuals, but yet influenced their behavior. According to Durkheim, it was through these social facts that helped influenced individual’s social ties. Through the strengths and weaknesses of an individuals social ties, a rational and degree of committing suicide can be determined. From incorporating Durkheim’s concepts and ideas on suicide, it will be clear as to what are the causes of suicide in the following two articles. It was the contemporary theorist Habermas that introduced the idea of communicative action. But in order to fully comprehend communicative action, there are some other key ideas that need to be explained. During the beginning of Habermas’ career, he expanded on the ideas of Marx. From his studies and research, there was the development of the critical theory. It was a theory that criticized social life and diagnosed the ills of modern society by identifying the changes necessary in order to create a more democratic society (Layder 2000:186-187). It was from this theory that Habermas started dealing with the interactions and behaviors between people in society. He claimed that behaviors in society were based on self-interest. Through interaction, a development of goal-oriented action would emerge and be put into effect. Habermas then developed the idea of communicative rationality (Layder 2000:188-189). This theory is concerned with the way people in interaction are trying to achieve a shared understanding. The development of a shared agreement of the idea is not what is important. According to Habermas, it was the ways in which people are trying to achieve the shared meaning through interaction (Layder 2000:188-190). From communicative rationality comes the development of communicative action. Communicative action is the coordination of the activities of two or more people on the basis of a shared understanding such that each person tries to convince the others with the effect that the resulting action is motivated through rationality or reason (Layder 2000:188-190). By the way of communicative rationality comes a shared understanding. Through this shared unde

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