How to Help the Suicidal Person to Choose Life: The Ethic of Care and Empathy as an Indispensable Tool for Intervention by K. Stephany

摘要

In comparison with four major contemporary causes of death in the Occidental world, the progress we have made incombating rising rates of suicide is not encouraging. During recent decades, the significant decreases in death rates fromcancer, heart disease, tuberculosis and cerebral vascular accidents (e.g. strokes) have not been seen in suicide/suicideprevention. Regretfully, the rate of suicide in the general population during recent decades has trended upwards. In thelight of these data, those involved in the care of the suicidal person might welcome additional literature that has thepotential to help address the alarming rate of suicide and thus I welcome the publication of this new book.