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ERIC Number: EJ517556
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0363-0234
Knowing When to Say Goodbye: Final Exit and Suicide in the Elderly.
Lerner, Barron H.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v25 n4 p508-12 Win 1995
Comments on fiction writer Derek Humphry's short story "Final Exit," in which an elderly couple commits double suicide. Notes the story could serve as a suicide manual for the nonterminal elderly. Asserts that fiction highlights the ambiguities surrounding elder suicide and serves as a reminder to view elder suicide in the context of individual life experiences. (KW)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Euthanasia, Older Adults, Psychopathology, Self Destructive Behavior, Suicide
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Suicide Intervention; Suicide Prevention