This article is a critical review of the French sociologist Emil Durkheim and his writings on suicide from his book titled "Suicide" written in 1897. Durkheim was seen as a positivist and functionalist. In his book, Durkheim's goal was to study people's tendencies towards suicide and determine its social causes. Suicide, which Durkheim defined as "all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, who knows that it will produce this result" (Durkheim, 1987). When Durkheim conducted his research on suicide he did so with the intention of establishing sociology as a science and consequently almost validating the value and power of sociology. Prior to Durkheim's study, suicide was only viewed as the act of an individual, however Durkheim's theory was that suicide was linked to social structures and although he believed that suicide was "the most personal act that anyone could undertake" (Durkheim, 1897), he also believed that he was credited for social causes. Hoping to test his theory, Durkheim studied suicide rates everywhere...