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... > Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Behavioral Symptoms > Self-Injurious Behavior > Suicide > Suicide, Assisted
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Suicide, Assisted  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Assisted Death
  • Assisted Deaths
  • Assisted Suicide
  • Death, Assisted
  • Deaths, Assisted

Scope note

  • 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).

History note

  • 93

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017236

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