title: [Suicide, a philosophical act or an act of depression?].
abstract: Suicide is more frequent in people aged over 75 than in the rest of the population. Is it the fact of feeling too old or of being alone? Is the person fully lucid? The question of responsibility is raised, as is the meaning of the act: the ultimate living gesture or capitulation in the face of death?
authors.affiliation: Faculté SHS/IPSA, Institut de psychologie appliquée, UCO-Angers, 3 place André-Leroy, 49008 Angers, France. Electronic address: christian.heslon@wanadoo.fr.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Heslon
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: death; elderly person; mort; old age; personne âgée; stages of life; suicide; vieillesse; âges de la vie