Knowing When to Say Goodbye: Final Exit and Suicide in the Elderly.

Lerner, Barron H.

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ERIC Number: EJ517556

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Publication Date: 1995

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Knowing When to Say Goodbye: Final Exit and Suicide in the Elderly.

Lerner, Barron H.

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v25 n4 p508-12 Win 1995

Comments on fiction writer Derek Humphry's short story "Final Exit," in which an elderly couple commits double suicide. Notes the story could serve as a suicide manual for the nonterminal elderly. Asserts that fiction highlights the ambiguities surrounding elder suicide and serves as a reminder to view elder suicide in the context of individual life experiences. (KW)

Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Euthanasia, Older Adults, Psychopathology, Self Destructive Behavior, Suicide

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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