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The Right to Suicide by Patty Fleener M.S.W.
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There should be no right to commit suicide, since suicidal people are not their real selves.
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Assisted Suicide Is Bootleg Suicide, By Thomas Szasz
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Bootlegging is likely to occur whenever a law prohibits a human need strong enough to incite people to satisfy it, even at considerable economic cost and personal risk.
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Book Review: Fatal Freedom
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The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide.
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Is There a Duty to Die?
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By John Hardwig, Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.
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Kevorkian Lies, and Suicide by Thomas S. Szasz
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Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one.
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Killing Yourself
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Definitions and a short review of arguments against suicide and in defense of suicide.
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Metapsychology Online Book Reviews - Fatal Freedom
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In-depth book review.
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Morality of Suicide
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Why, if at all, is it morally unacceptable for one to bring about one's own death? Considers the views of Hume, Kant and Utilitarianism.
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Suicide
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From Dr. Ezio Vailati's course on Ethics.
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Suicide
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Suicide and the absurd. Contrasting the views of Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel.
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Suicide & Philosophy
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Links to philosophical studies of suicide and its meaning for us. Maintained by Matthew Pianalto, graduate student, University of Arkansas.
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Suicide and Assisted Suicide
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Chapter from Peter McWilliams book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do".
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Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
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The Complete 1783 Edition of David Hume's Essays.
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Suicide: A Civil Right
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From the Antipsychiatry Coalition.
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Summa Theologica II-II, 64, 5
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Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas.
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The Absurd Hero
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Summary of "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.
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The complete works of Robert Green Ingersoll
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Includes five sections of his views on suicide.
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The Ethical Debate
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Chapter 5 from "When Death is Sought - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context". A comprehensive historical and philosophical survey.
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The Murder of Oneself
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A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide.
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