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Throughout this chapter, medically related suicide—mental illness, assisted suicide and euthanasia—will be explored. This exploration presents definitions, patterns, forms and themes within the relevant literature in order not only to highlight the realities of different types of suicides but also to illustrate the key areas of relevant research that have been and are being undertaken. The three types of medical suicide cover the forms of suicide experienced most typically within society. As such, these three examples are surrounded by much stigma and controversy and debates continue both in academia and in society around the many related issues, from prevention of suicide in patients with mental illnesses to the devaluation of disability that assisted suicide/euthanasia can generate.

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Standish, K. (2020). Medical Suicide. In: Suicide through a Peacebuilding Lens . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9737-0_4

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