 Throughout history, suicide has evoked an astonishingly wide range of reactions—bafflement, dismissal, heroic glorification, sympathy, anger, moral or religious condemnation—but it is never uncontroversial. For example, suicide has long been a central concern within many academic disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, psychology, and psychiatry. These disciplines converge in the multidisciplinary field of suicidology. But there remain many controversies within suicidology, including which methodologies are best suited to identify the causes of suicide and whether the study of suicide can be fully disentangled from researchers’ political or institutional commitments. (Maung 2020; for concerns about the political dimensions of suicide research, see work within ’critical suicidology’ such as White et al. 2016)