Fall from power: suicide of an executive.
An influential corporate executive apparently killed himself and two others when faced with public exposure and perhaps imprisonment for illegal use of his corporate position to raise money for political and charitable causes he favored. Clinical and psychological descriptions of such cases are rare. Because an extensive psychological autopsy enabled a detailed description of this case, it is presented with the aim of shedding light on a type of suicide that needs to be understood.
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American Suicide Foundation, New York, NY 10028.
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