CAUSES OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN NATIVE PEOPLES OF SIBERIA: RELIGIOUS AND WORLD OUTLOOK ASPECTS OF ATTITUDE TO DEATH

The present article is the extension of scientific research aimed at studying the causes of suicidal behavior in native peoples of Siberia - the Altaians, the Buryats, the Tyvins, the Yakuts, the Evens and the Evenks. We have studied religious and world outlook aspects of attitude towards life and death. We have defined the characteristics of traditional worldviews and animism, the indigenous religion of native ethnos. We have studied the funeral rites as the example of the attitude to death in traditional cultures and revealed the reasons of negative attitude to suicides. We have marked that the transition from traditional social economic society to the modern one was followed by the loss of traditional spirituality and life benchmarks. Uncertainty of religious and world views, being observed nowadays in native peoples of Siberia leads to the lower position of the main worldview orientation - the value of human life.