This book brings together a range of perspectives on aging, suicide, & euthanasia from different cultures & countries. In addition to analytical overviews of the relationship between socioeconomic or psychological factors & suicidal behaviour, differences between younger & older suicides, family factors, & physician-assisted suicide & euthanasia, contributions by leading authorities from 10 different regions contain a description of elderly suicide in their culture. Discussions of the role of the elderly in the respective culture & the issue of euthanasia/assisted suicide, especially in the terminally ill, complete each chapter.