1. Through either citing your Reading material, or an online U.S. Government source (please include the URL), discuss and analyze three sets of statistics that help you understand the change in the rate of suicide in the United States since 1950.
2. Given these statistics, what is one important prediction that you would make about the suicide rate over the next 20 or 30 years? For example, is it going to increase, and if so, for which groups, and why?
3.What are some of the most important legal concerns that a physician confronts when assisting in the death of a terminally ill patient? Do you think these legal concerns are justified? Why or why not?
4.Name a culture apart from your own that regards the phenomenon of suicide differently than your viewpoint. Be specific in what you discuss.
5.What do you think your own culture can learn from other cultures when it comes to the response to suicide?
