The final months a study of the lives of 134 persons who committed suicide l d hankoff md in the final months robins has made a unique contribution to the clinical understanding of suicide this work of robins is in a tradition of clinical investigation that has become synonymous with his name and is the kind of book that settles . The final months a study of the lives of 134 persons who committed suicide by eli robins md oxford university press new york city 1981 437 pages 3295 michael f heiman search for more papers by this author. Suicide en dcsubjectclassification suicide assisted suicide en dctitle the final months a study of the lives of 134 persons who committed suicide en dcprovenance citation prepared by the library and information services group of the kennedy institute of ethics georgetown university for the ethxweb database en dcprovenance. An interesting study of all the suicides that took place in the st louis metro area between may 1956 and may 1957 divided by diagnosis primarily depression or alcoholism the history of each person and the events leading up to their suicide is told in detailed and succinct accounts of a page or two each. C2009 2020 bioethics research library box 571212 washington dc 20057 1212 2026873885