Sweet media death and assisted suicide: Two different experiences
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12869/TM2017-2-01Keywords:
Assisted suicide, Mental disorder, Ethics, Media, Clinical case.Abstract
The following essay is a reasoning concerning the assisted suicide in the media. The attempt of the essay isto create a line of flight from the mainstream argument “pro or against” suicide, the present ideological contrast thatmakes impossible to tell a life-script, in trying to understand why this subject, and not others, gives death to Itself,transforming, through such a gesture, he/she into It. This reasoning affects psychology as well as history. Particularlythe historical use of the term euthanasia as different from assisted suicide. The way out from the ideological argumentof being pro/against is represented by the analysis of a clinical case concerning a patient named AP.References
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