[Epilepsy and suicide--a new evaluation. Prevalence and classification of methods]

According to a criticism of all findings results that an early and progressing successful medical and psychosocial therapy will help to reduce respectively to prevent suicide. Certainly the risk is still insignificant higher than on the average of general population but doesn't come to the three- or five-fold as constantly repeated in the past. The uncertain number of attempts of suicides is at least comparably high in epileptics and general population. The described facts give permission to more founded statements with respect to the prognosis of epilepsies and should be taken into consideration by contracting for life-insurances, especially if seizure-control persists or is to be expected within a reasonable space of time.