Resource

A link to purchase the book: Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws: Examining Current Approaches to Suicide in Policy and Law. Oxford University Press.

• It covers legal issues relating to suicide in constitutional law, tort law, malpractice law, anti-discrimination law, education law, insurance law, trusts and estates, and other areas
• Based on over 300 interviews and surveys of people who have made serious suicide attempts, suicidologists, family members, lawyers, physicians, and psychiatrists
• The only book to propose a "unified field theory" on law and policy relating to suicide that covers both assisted suicide and suicide prevention
• Includes a set of model statutes embodying some of the proposed reforms and recommendations for advocates to take to their legislators