RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The hard way out
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 616
OP 617
VO 29
IS 207
A1 Patterson, W. M.
YR 1979
UL http://bjgp.org/content/29/207/616.abstract
AB Much recent discussion and publicity has been directed towards the problem of international self-poisoning as a cry for help, or as a manipulative procedure where patients have ensured that the suicide attempt is discovered in time for counter measures. I describe the successful and carefully planned suicide of a 72-year-old patient with a particular attitude to euthanasia and with no evidence of a depressive illness.