In Defense of Life

The mental-health professions have so far failed to reduce the increasing rate of suicide in Western society, especially among adolescents. This failure calls for a radical revision in the present approach to the problem. It is argued that no professional approach suffices to fight the suicide epidemic without an explicit commitment to the sanctity of life. A moral stand against suicide, denouncing its cruelty toward loved and loving ones and its senselessness from the suicide's own viewpoint, is called for. Only such an open plea can make the clinical efforts efficient

Criminology · Cruelty · Medical emergency · Mental health · Plea · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Suicide prevention · Suicide rates · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

• A Comparison of Guilt in Bereaved Parents whose Children Died by Suicide, Accident, or Chronic Disease

  Open Access•Margaret Shandor Miles, Alice Sterner Demi•OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying•1992

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• Attitudes toward the Survivors of Suicide as a Function of the Motive for Suicide

  Open Access•D Lester•OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying•1991

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• Recent Bereavement from Suicide and other Deaths

  Open Access•Karin E Thompson, Lillian M Range•OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying•1991

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