Suicide (n.) is a moral problem in that an excessive suicide rate signals the existence of a social pathology and the potential for social decomposition (a social analogue to individual suicide).
Suicide (n.) is a social problem in that it can be mapped, categorized and analysed, and solutions to it are to be conceived of as social solutions (i.e. In a way that does away with the phenomenon rather than eradicating each and every individual instance).
Suicide (n.) is a symbolic blow at the morality governing personhood, specifically, in its modern interpretation, as an attack on the sacredness of the person.
Suicide (n.) is not really an individual act or a personal action at all, but rather is caused by a transpersonal social force, something like a specific disease that afflicts susceptible people in a society.
Suicide (n.) is predictable when different social modes prevail... for example, a rise in fatalistic and egoistic suicides can be expected in an age of 'austerity' such as our own.
Suicide (n.) is primarily a social phenomenon where something has gone horribly wrong with the social bond.
Suicide (n.) is social, which is to say that it is caused by a dysfunctional relationship with society, an incompatibility with the social order, not by biology or psychology. A suicide victim lacks social organization, social integration, social solidarity, a functioning social identity.