DEATH AND THE MAIDEN.

Discusses issues related to physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. in relation to the trial of pathologist Jack Kevorkian of Royal Oak, Michigan in 1996. Afflictions suffered by women who prefer to die; Difference between the reasons of men and women for committing suicide; Statistics of suicides in the country from the National Center for Health Statistics; Findings of David McClleland of Harvard University in his study wherein he administered Thematic Apperception Test to terminally ill women in their 60s.