A Very Easy Death: Simone de Beauvoir

Product Information

Such information allows public health resources to focus on the problems that are relevant in a particular place, or for a given population or subpopulation. The judicial sense of the term " homicide" includes any intervention undertaken with the express intention of ending a life, even to relieve intractable suffering.

Suicide prevention | Mental Health Foundation

If the first-choice suicide method is inaccessible, a method substitution may be made which may be less lethal, tending to result in fewer fatal suicide attempts. Indirect suicide is differentiated from legally defined suicide by the fact that the person does not directly cause the action meant to kill them, but rather expects and allows the action to happen to them.Michael Wreen argued that "the principal thing that distinguishes euthanasia from intentional killing simpliciter is the agent's motive: it must be a good motive insofar as the good of the person killed is concerned. That said, Marshall points out that passive suicide is not a clinical term, and most mental health experts avoid it.

Suicide: What to do when someone is thinking about suicide

It also required that the case be heard by a physician, required informed consent in front of three witnesses, and required the attendance of three physicians who had to agree that the patient's recovery was impossible. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so. In some countries, divisive public controversy occurs over the moral, ethical, and legal issues associated with euthanasia. Detailed descriptions of suicides or the personal characteristics of the person who died contribute to copycat suicides ( suicide contagion). While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience.The word "euthanasia" was first used in a medical context by Francis Bacon in the 17th century to refer to an easy, painless, happy death, during which it was a "physician's responsibility to alleviate the 'physical sufferings' of the body. The issue has been at the centre of very heated debates for many years and is surrounded by religious, ethical and practical considerations. If you’re currently in treatment for depression, make sure to tell your therapist you’re having suicidal thoughts. There are multiple talk therapies that reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors regardless of method, including dialectical behavior therapy.