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“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.”

Littles Happens Function Suicide Patient Irony Saddest

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.”

People States Realizing Pleasure Sadness Suicide Patient Extremes Connected Melancholy Exaggerated

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.”

Order Danger Suicide Patient Dues Mysterious Etc Conception Imaginary Disgrace Hallucinations Delirious

Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide

“Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business”

School Grows Dying Students Lessons Suicide Patient Finals Bounds Cheating Leap Unfinished Exam Assisting Unfinished Business Final Exams

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'”

Thinking Problem Science Suffering Causes Lines Situation Fate Comfortable Suicide Patient Illness Compare Switzerland Terminal Health Problems Terminal Illness Assisted Suicide

Author:Arthur Caplan

“Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite is true. In some cases, suicide risk skyrockets once treatment begins (the patient may feel not only penalized for a justifiable reaction, but permanently stigmatized as malfunctioning). Studies show that self-loathing sharply decreases only in the course of cognitive-behavioral treatment.”

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia.”

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Author:Ezekiel Emanuel