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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Patient Care > Terminal Care > Suicide, Assisted
Therapeutics > Patient Care > Terminal Care > Suicide, Assisted
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Problems > Suicide > Suicide, Assisted
... > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Behavioral Symptoms > Self-Injurious Behavior > Suicide > Suicide, Assisted

Preferred term

Suicide, Assisted  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to terminate his or her own life. (from APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed).

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Entry terms

  • Assisted Suicide
  • Death, Assisted

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

  • Suicide assisté

    French

  • Aide à la mort
  • Aide à mourir
  • Aide au suicide
  • Mort assistée

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-HLHQD50M-6

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