title: The distinction between completing a suicide and assisting one: why treating a suicide attempt does not require closing the "window of opportunity".
authors: University of Texas-Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jeffrey.p.spike@uth.tmc.edu
authors: Jeffrey P
authors: JP
authors: Spike
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D016638:Critical Illness; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D019727:Proxy; D017236:Suicide, Assisted; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D019452:Terminally Ill; D028761:Withholding Treatment / Q000941:ethics*