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WARNING: GRIM (Abst.) Wheelchair-assisted suicide

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WARNING: GRIM (Abst.) Wheelchair-assisted suicide
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This is very sad. Readers might want to skip it. But it's one of the few instances of discussion of an actual case of this kind.


From PubMed (March 29, 2019)--"Wheelchair-assisted  ligature strangulation: An unusual suicide by a quadriparetic":


Multiple sclerosis, currently incurable and potentially profoundly disabling demyelinating central nervous system disease, is associated with higher occurrence of suicide as affected individuals ar...
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