This action is the topic of Alfred Alvarez's The Savage God.  Edwin Schneidman has developed ten common characteristics of it, and Karl Menninger developed the concept of a "chronic" variety.  In the most famous work on this subject the author doesn't define it in terms of intentionality but instead his definition hinges on the executor knowing the result of the action.  He also related it to social integration and proposed three types-egoistic, 
This action is the topic of Alfred Alvarez's The Savage God.  Edwin Schneidman has developed ten common characteristics of it, and Karl Menninger developed the concept of a "chronic" variety.  In the most famous work on this subject the author doesn't define it in terms of intentionality but instead his definition hinges on the executor knowing the result of the action.  He also related it to social integration and proposed three types-egoistic, altruistic, and anomic. FTP, identify this title action of an 1897 Emile Durkheim work, the act of killing oneself.
This action is the topic of Alfred Alvarez's The Savage God.  
suicide