ABSTRACT
There can be few ethical issues that prompt more passionate and polarized debate than those matters pertaining to end of life decisions.1 Similarly, a discussion of suicide and care of the suicidal person would be incomplete (and ill-informed) without consideration of ethical issues, informed by a wide range of disciplines as Davidson2 noted, ‘approaching the understanding of suicide exclusively from within one’s own discipline is like looking close-up at dots in a pointillist canvas’.
