[Legal aspects of suicide (author's transl)].

The legal and forensic aspects of suicide are explained with particular reference to penal and civil code and social welfare legislation. This includes inter alia suicide as a result of injuries sustained during an accident a well as mental diseases of various etiology and pathogenesis, all of which are given detailed attention. Special problems, such suicide in a hospital, etc. have already been dealt with in great detail in other publications, so that reference is made to them within the framework of the present article.