This webinar will discuss legal and ethical issues in suicide studies including the ongoing loneliness crisis, the suicide “pandemic,” clinical implications of suicide liability, the debates surrounding rational suicide (including for those with mental illness), recent developments in the field of family suicide-homicides, and the burgeoning issue of substituted judgment in suicidal patients.

Learning Objectives

1) Participants will understand the clinical implications of suicide liability and the argument that favor suicide liability reform.

2) Participants will understand the debate surrounding rational suicide abroad and its implications for clinical care.

3) Participants will understand the debate related to substituted judgement for medical decisions in patients with suicidal thinking.