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...Kerrihard and Roth are just three of the 30 Harvard Medical School students who each year choose to pursue an alternative course of study which emphasizes research over clinical aspects of medicine...
...Kerrihard's project emphasizes social and behavioral issues, as opposed to technical or clinical issues, involved in the wish to die in terminally ill patients...
...wonder if suicide cannot also be a rational response to a difficult situation," Kerrihard said...
...Kerrihard has found that most terminally ill patients, specifically those with AIDS and advanced cancers, consider suicide at some point during their illness and that those who do are often characterized as having high levels of depression, hopelessness, suicidal tendencies and social isolation...
...determining the origin of suicidal tendencies, Kerrihard says researchers can begin to design treatment...