Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, USA.

David Lester has doctoral degrees from Cambridge University (UK) in social and political science and Brandeis University (USA) in psychology. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. He is a former President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. He has published extensively on suicide, murder and other issues in thanatology. His recent books include: Rational suicide: Is it possible? (2014), Suicide in men (2014), Theories of suicide (2014), The “I” of the storm (2014), On multiple selves (2015), and Suicide as a dramatic performance (2015), plus several books with Nova Science (The End of Suicidology, How Culture Shapes Suicidal Behavior and Firearms and Suicide – Is Prevention Possible?)