title: Physicians, partners, and people with AIDS: deciding about suicide.
abstract: In places such as The Netherlands and the US west coast, assistance in suicide has become a choice actually available to persons with AIDS. Hence, it is important to consider the "rational structure" of choices about suicide in AIDS. There are four principal levels of choice: (1) the question of active control over dying; (2) the question of holding out for a cure; (3) the choice of going early or going late; and (4) the question of what weight to give to the interests of others.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Battin
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D033062:Friends; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010819:Physician's Role; D012945:Social Values; D017236:Suicide, Assisted