A Life Span Perspective of Suicide (IN: Life Span perspectives of Suicide: Time-Lines in the Suicide Process, ed. by A A Leenaars)

This is the conlcuding chapter in a book on suicide & the life span. It reviews the articles in the book, which discuss: the developmental perspective of suicide; the epidemiology of suicide; the differences & commonalities in the rates & characteristics of suicide across the life span; the biological, sociologial & anthropological correlates of suicide; the bereavement issues faced by surviviors of the death of a loved one; & prevention strategies. (VM)