News
10/10/2018
The Program of Actions and Studies on Suicide - PAES, from Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, carried out a cycle of actions in reference to the international month of suicide prevention, also known as “Yellow September”. The study group, coordinated by Professor Ailcil Franco, completed three years of activities.
Ailcil says that the emergence of the group was based on complaints from students about the lack of debates about suicide. Currently, there are weekly meetings that are open to students from other institutions. On the first day, September 14, the action was held at Campus Cabula. The program included several lectures and discussions between several courses, with the participation of more than 170 students. On the second day, September 21, the cine debate took place with the screening of the film “Elena” (2012), at Campus Brotas.
The objective of the debate film was to address postvention, which is the attention and care that should be taken with family members and friends who have lost people to suicide, since this typification of death generates a lot of guilt or even new occurrences. According to the coordinator of PAES, the exact causes of this phenomenon are not yet known, but some scientific observations suggest genetic predisposition, although this evidence does not always apply. An example of this are communities where a suicide provokes others, even if people are not related. “These are lines that need to be studied”, concludes the professor. After the documentary, the class was divided into discussion groups to reflect the aspects of post-suicide.