Distinguishing among irrational suicide and other forms of hastened death: implications for clinical practice
| Autor: | Cavin P. Leeman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty genetic structures Poison control Legislation Suicide prevention Suicide Assisted Treatment Refusal Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) immune system diseases parasitic diseases Injury prevention Medicine Humans Mental Competency Assisted suicide Psychiatry Referral and Consultation Applied Psychology Aged Resuscitation Orders Depressive Disorder Motivation business.industry Right to Die Human factors and ergonomics Social environment Middle Aged Mental health eye diseases United States Psychiatry and Mental health Suicide surgical procedures operative Chronic Disease Female business Advance Directives Supreme Court Decisions |
| Zdroj: | Psychosomatics. 50(3) |
| ISSN: | 1545-7206 |
| Popis: | Background The increasing recognition that not all hastened death is irrational challenges clinical practice. Objective The author distinguishes among the various forms of hastened death. Psychiatrists may be consulted when patients ask to hasten their death in any of the ways described, contrasted, and illustrated in this article. Conclusion The rational desire to hasten death may call for unconventional psychiatric responses. The author discusses the error of failing to provide life-saving medical treatment over the objection of someone who has attempted suicide and the error of trying to prevent rational persons suffering from incurable illness from hastening their death. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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