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Psychiatric assessment of the suicidal terminally ill
1John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, USA.
Hawaii Medical Journal
|April 1, 1995
Abstract:
Terminally ill patients who refuse life-supporting treatments and express a wish to die are often viewed in the same light as suicidal patients who are medically well. Terminally ill patients who are depressed should be treated with antidepressants, but if the wish to die persists, it should be respected.