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[Suicide prevention as an ethical problem].

B Elkeles
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The modern understanding of suicide as a cry for help has to face the question, whether or not the human right of freedom of the will is respected. A second historically rooted concept rules suicide as an illegal act. A third concept accepts suicide as the ultimate refuge from unbearable suffering. It is problematic, because it does not respect sufficiently the value of human life.

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B Elkeles. 1991. [Suicide prevention as an ethical problem].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2038839/

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