title: [Legal aspects of suicide (author's transl)].
abstract: The legal and forensic aspects of suicide are explained with particular reference to penal and civil code and social welfare legislation. This includes inter alia suicide as a result of injuries sustained during an accident a well as mental diseases of various etiology and pathogenesis, all of which are given detailed attention. Special problems, such suicide in a hospital, etc. have already been dealt with in great detail in other publications, so that reference is made to them within the framework of the present article.
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D012924:Social Conditions; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology
vernacular_title: Suizid und Recht.