An explication of rational suicide: Its definitions, implications, and complications

Journal of Loss and Trauma

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 177-192

  Maltsberger, John T ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^c MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

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