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Bookmark or Share- Edwin S. Shneidman - WikipediaEdwin S. Shneidman (May 13, 1918 – May 15, 2009) was an American clinical psychologist, suicidologist and thanatologist. Together with Norman Farberow and Robert Litman, in 1958, he founded the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center where the men were instrumental in researching suicide and developing a crisis center and treatments to prevent ...
- Edwin S. Shneidman (1918–2009). - APA PsycNetAfter a protracted struggle with diabetes, hypertension, prostate cancer, and congestive heart failure, Edwin S. Shneidman closed the final chapter of his life on May 15, 2009, shortly after his 91st birthday. Ed spent his career investigating why people wanted to die.
- Edwin Shneidman, Authority on Suicide, Dies at 91Edwin S. Shneidman, a psychologist who gave new direction to the study of suicide and was a founder of the nation’s first comprehensive suicide prevention center, died Friday at his home in Los...
- Criteria for a Good Death - SUNY Upstate Medical UniversityThis brief paper advances the concept of a “good death,” outlines ten spe-cific criteria for a good death, and proposes a simple golden rule for optimal dying. By almost universal common consent, death has a bad reputation. Words like awful and catastrophic are practically synonymous with death.
- Edwin S. Shneidman PhD | The Good Death InstituteIn 1968, Shneidman founded the American Association of Suicidology and the principal United States journal for suicide studies, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior. In 1970, he became Professor of Thanatology at the University of California, where he taught for decades.
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