antisuicide

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ suicide

Adjective

antisuicide (not comparable)

1. Opposing or preventing suicide.
   • 1992, George Howe Colt, The Enigma of Suicide:

     Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse.

   • 1999, Jürgen Kind, Paul Foulkes, Suicidal Behaviour:

     An antisuicide pact, too, seems at first glance to be collaborative: the therapist conducts therapy under the terms of an agreement made with a patient […]

   • 2007, Jair C. Soares, Allan H. Young, Bipolar Disorders: Basic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications:

     Although not definitively demonstrated by direct placebo-controlled data, there is mounting evidence from a variety of research methodologies supporting the antisuicide effect of lithium.

Translations

opposing or preventing suicide

• Portuguese: antissuicídio