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Download or read book 03 - SWEET SUICIDE: CLINICAL CASE written by Michele Mattia and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AP is a man of 69. u2028On august 2016 he received the following diagnosis: Adenocarcinoma at 4th stadium metastasized.u2028 For six months he passed a positive period of life. Then he had a new fMRI scan which revealed the presence of new metastasis. u2028A few days later, his insisted in his desire to put end to his life. u2028The Oncological Institute of the Italian Switzerland (IOSI), where AP was admitted, supported his request, facilitating contact with Exit (private Swiss Institution for suicide assisted).u2028 APu2019s mental state has remained constantly clear. APu2019s wife has remained close to her husband. u2028AP quitted his life on april 2016, drinking Pentobarbital. u2028His wife was absolutely convinced she would join her husband through her own assisted suicide. u2028AP was able to choose assisted suicide because he demonstrated no egoistic intention, and had no other possibility of cure. u2028What would happen to APu2019s wife if she were not be admitted into a program of assisted suicide? Would she kill herself? u2028The controversy on suicide is religious, philosophical, political and historical. Although the majority of general practioners and nurses in Switzerland, agree with the practice of assisted suicide in cases such as oncological or neuro-vegetative disease, opinion concerning assisted suicide in the presence of severe mental disorder switches dramatically to the opposite position. Why? u2028We will try to discuss the implications present in the controversy between acceptation and non acceptation of sweet death in somatic and psychiatric state.