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Rational suicide among older adults: A cause for concern?

✍ Scribed by Sharon L. Moore

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Weight: 395 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1532-8228
DOI: 10.1016/s0883-9417(09)90009-7

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✦ Synopsis

Society is collectively having to examine questions it has never had to face before and nurses are frequently confronted with the difficult issue of whether suicide can or should be a rational choice for older adults. They may be faced with the question of whether an older person should ever be restrained from suicide. Arguments for and against rational suicide are highlighted and the author makes the case for a rational approach to the affirmation of life, rather than its rejection, even to the very end.

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