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AbstractFrom the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea stretches a strip of land more or less six hundred kilometres wide, inhabited by more than sixty million people belonging to seven nations. For decades, the countries that comprise this region were a buffer zone against the USSR, and today they are becoming the European Union's buffer zone against clandestine immigration and trafficking of all sorts. We went along the border with these guards and foot or motorized patrols, which watch over the ramparts of the new Europe day after day.
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This article briefly gives the results of a comparative study about the suicide rates of elderly people, according to countries, ages and sex. In our effort to understand the social meaning of these figures, we are inspired by Émile Durkheim's thesis, according to which the phenomenon of the suicide is connected to the capacity of a society to integrate certain groups, as the elder. Finally, we investigate how exclusion or rather incapacity of integration of elder is susceptible to lead to suicidal behavior. In end, we shall suggest a respectful and discreet accompanying of the elder in their choices.
Keywords: taux de suicide, aînés, intégration, accompagnement, suicide rates, elder, integration, accompanying
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Printed news reports circulated, in the 16th and 17th century, which revealed the sudden conversion to Christianity – some were real, but several were invented – of powerful monarchs from abroad. How were such announcements written or invented? Different scenarios existed. There was genuine news, to which were added cosmetic and false details, or sometimes overly enthusiastic interpretations. There was false news, although invented, arguably, to simplify the reporting of real upheavals on the scene of world affairs – such as the entrance on the historical stage of the Safavid dynasty, fantasized in the media as the conversion of Ismail I (in 1508) or Abbas I (in 1606). The strange case of La conversion de trois grands rois [The Conversion of Three Great Kings] helps in distinguishing two falsification mechanisms, or in this case two steps: in 1571, it was the fraudulent mixing of excerpts from genuine Jesuit letters; in 1588, 1608 and 1609, the same news report circulated anew, with all of its dates replaced by current ones. Truth and fiction thus intertwined better than they clashed, and paradoxically at the very time when genuine and current information about Persia, India and Indonesia was starting to circulate in Europe. The existence of such chimerical news also indicates that, as the industry of news reporting was developing, the particular desirability of reports on high-level conversions helped them prevail over other news more genuine, yet less appealing.
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