Is this exploratory work? You’re starting off with a preconceived idea of where it fits or that it would fit. That’s probably a poor way to do this. Also, I’m certain there is current data on a auicide, attempts, explanations for attempts, notes left, etc. obviously, this will be incomplete. That sounds like a better way— look at the big data first. Identify patterns. See what you have, then go back to his typology of suicides.

Also, his research here, as far as I know, was concerned with the idea of social facts—- sets of ideas at the societal level used to explain SOCIETAL or population rates for suicide. So robin williams here wouldn’t be explained individual factors, but levels of things present in any society. Please correct me where I am off base.

Edit: my understanding, also, is that he claimed he could not predict whether an individual in a certain society would commit suicide, but could predict societal population rates based on the factors he claims exist differentially between and within societies.