Ethical and legal aspects of the suicide problem

Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
B Bron

Abstract

The discussion on the freedom to commit suicide and on medical assistance to suicide is a challenge for psychiatry to consider critically the ethical aspects of suicide prophylaxis and of the present jurisdiction on suicide. Suicide research has shown that most acts of suicide are not carried out as free acts of will. The increase in clinic suicides and the high frequency of suicides after in-patient psychiatric treatment clearly show the limits of the therapy of suicidal patients and force us to reflect critically on new developments of psychiatry and special forms of therapy. The decision on the necessity and the duration of compulsory measures can always be made only for each individual case. The danger of renewed acts of suicide can never be excluded. Especially great demands are made on the doctor-patient relationship. Suicide prophylaxis is a humanitarian obligation of society and the medical profession, especially of psychiatry, an obligation which must not be jeopardised by one-sided propagations of the right to "voluntary death".

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