(See Fairbairn 1995, ch. 9, for a taxonomy of the varieties of suicide.

) Therefore, it is not the case

that suicidal individuals intend death per se, but rather that death is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as
a means for the fulfillment of another of the agents aims (Graber 1981, 56). In short, there do not
appear to be any compelling examples of noninstrumental self-killings in which the overriding
intention is simply to end ones life and there is no further independent objective involved in the
action (OKeeffe 1981, 357). Nor does requiring that the individual wish to be dead (Fairbairn
1995, ch. 6) address this issue, since again, what one wishes is presumably not death itself but some
outcome of death. Both the grenade-jumping soldier and the depressed individual may wish not to
die insofar as they might prefer that their desires could be satisfied without dying or without putting
themselves at the risk thereof. However, this is consistent with their willingly choosing to die in
order to satisfy their aims.