Suicide committed by someone with assistance from another person or persons, typically in regard to people suffering from a severe physical illness

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A man attended by a surgeon (suicide of Seneca?). Oil painting.

Voluntary Euthanasia Society.

Der gute Tod? : Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart / Udo Benzenhöfer.

Cry of pain : understanding suicide and the suicidal mind / Mark Williams.

Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret Somerville.

Medizingeschichte im Rheinland : Beiträge des "Rheinischen Kreises der Medizinhistoriker" / Dominik Gross, Axel Karenberg (Hrsg.).

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Suicide, Assisted

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Images about Suicide, Assisted

Works from the collections

Voluntary Euthanasia Society.

Der gute Tod? : Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart / Udo Benzenhöfer.

Cry of pain : understanding suicide and the suicidal mind / Mark Williams.

Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret Somerville.

Medizingeschichte im Rheinland : Beiträge des "Rheinischen Kreises der Medizinhistoriker" / Dominik Gross, Axel Karenberg (Hrsg.).

Suicide, Assisted

Images from the collections

Images about Suicide, Assisted

Works from the collections

Voluntary Euthanasia Society.

Der gute Tod? : Euthanasie und Sterbehilfe in Geschichte und Gegenwart / Udo Benzenhöfer.

Cry of pain : understanding suicide and the suicidal mind / Mark Williams.

Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret Somerville.

Medizingeschichte im Rheinland : Beiträge des "Rheinischen Kreises der Medizinhistoriker" / Dominik Gross, Axel Karenberg (Hrsg.).

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