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To the Editor: The article by Marzuk et al. (Nov. 11 issue)¹ on the increase in suicide by asphyxiation in New York City after the publication of Final Exit confirms what many of us who keep statistics already knew. My book has not increased the number of suicides in the United States, but it has changed the method by which some people end their lives. The plastic bag is a bloodless, nonviolent method, whereas guns, knives, and jumps from high places are not.

Marzuk et al. raise the alarm that the plastic-bag method does not give a person time to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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