I agree with Genie on this. My father had a cousin who went to great lengths to end his life with a shotgun blast to the head on a Cumberland street in the 1920's. It's all in my genealogy, since it was in the newspaper (in great detail). For a recent suicide, I would simply list cause of death as suicide (unless it would cause an immediate family member emotional pain), with no further details, OR give cause of death as gunshot (or whatever), omitting the fact that it was self-inflicted. Such things are usually published in the newspapers anyway. I would file the details in my research notes for future use by whoever carries on the work of the family genealogy. My father had some "colorful" relatives in Hampshire Co in the early 20th Century--a little too colorful for my taste--one woman was suspected of poisoning her husband (she quickly left the county never to be heard from again when they exhumed the body) and another cousin went on a murderous rampage. My paternal relatives are all "normal" now (I think) and somewhat boring by comparison--Thank God! Genie wrote: >Such sensitivity should apply perhaps to recently >deceased cases with still-living immediate >family, but I see no reason at all to omit such >facts about our ancestors from family trees or >genealogies.... >