Abstract
Le suicide has become a classic which has influenced most of the research conducted on this issue since then. Nevertheless, as Durkheim points out himself « the questions that suicide raise are closely connected with the most serious practical problems of the present time ». Even if the 19th century indisputably paved the way to the modern society we live in, it is obvious that the problems individuals had to face a century ago, are very different from those to which we are today confronted.
Moreover, since the analysis of suicide is linked to the issues of peculiar times, it therefore seems legitimate to ask oneself how relevant Durkheim's theory on suicide is to modern society...
