Biomaterial Database

Rational suicide. 1992

John R Hofer

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D003376	Counseling	The giving of advice and assistance to individuals with educational or personal problems.
D003704	Dementia	An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.	Senile Paranoid Dementia,Amentia,Familial Dementia,Amentias,Dementia, Familial,Dementias,Dementias, Familial,Dementias, Senile Paranoid,Familial Dementias,Paranoid Dementia, Senile,Paranoid Dementias, Senile,Senile Paranoid Dementias
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013405	Suicide	The act of killing oneself.	Suicides
D016743	Mental Competency	The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).	Competency, Mental,Incompetency, Mental,Competence,Incompetence, Mental,Mental Competence,Competence, Mental,Mental Incompetence,Mental Incompetency
D017236	Suicide, Assisted	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).	Assisted Suicide,Death, Assisted,Medically Assisted Suicide,Physician-Assisted Suicide,Medically Assisted Suicides,Suicide, Medically Assisted,Suicides, Medically Assisted,Assisted Death,Assisted Deaths,Assisted Suicides,Deaths, Assisted,Physician Assisted Suicide,Physician-Assisted Suicides,Suicide, Physician-Assisted,Suicides, Assisted,Suicides, Physician-Assisted