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Is refusing necessary medical treatment or surgery considered a form of suicide?
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Treatment: I would say if refusing treatment could definitively and absolutely result in death, than one could make an argument for some level of suicidality. However, reusing one form of treatment in favor of another with which the patient feels more comfortable is not especially suicidal or self destructive.
Answered 3/26/2015
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