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The article presents a comparison between those Samaritan clients who committed suicides and those living Samaritan clients. The study has noted that those Samaritans who committed suicides are older, more frequently male, had disrupted marriages, living alone or in hotels, had more histories of previous psychiatric treatment and attempted suicide, and presented more often with psychological as opposed to practical problems. It has indicated that the best discriminating measures between the two groups were the presence at the time of self-referral of a previous history of psychiatric treatment, and being in contact with other agencies.