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Suicide accounts for 1.4% of all deaths worldwide, and was reported to be the 18th leading cause of death in 2016 [1]. In Korea, the estimated total suicide mortality was 24.3 per 100,000 in 2017, which was 2.3 times higher than the global rate [2] and the second highest rate among member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [3]. For many years, there were few discussions of suicide as it relates to epilepsy, partly because of concerns about further increasing the stigma associated with epilepsy.