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Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws: Examining Current Approaches to Suicide in Policy and Law by Susan Stefan (Oxford University Press) is a book that:

• 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
• Is based on over 300 interviews and surveys of people who have made serious suicide attempts, suicidologists, family members, lawyers, physicians, and psychiatrists
• Is 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

The book can be purchased at the link below.