Assisted Suicide Is Bootleg Suicide, By Thomas Szasz
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. |
Book Review: Fatal Freedom
The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide. |
Is There a Duty to Die?
By John Hardwig, Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee. |
Kevorkian Lies, and Suicide by Thomas S. Szasz
Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one. |
Killing Yourself
Definitions and a short review of arguments against suicide and in defense of suicide. |
Metapsychology Online Book Reviews - Fatal Freedom
In-depth book review. |
Morality of Suicide
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. |
Seneca, Epistle 70
on the proper time to slip the cable. |
Seneca: On Taking One's Own Life
Advocating suicide as a valid choice. |
Suicide
Suicide and the absurd. Contrasting the views of Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel. |
Suicide
From Dr. Ezio Vailati's course on Ethics. |
Suicide & Philosophy
Links to philosophical studies of suicide and its meaning for us. Maintained by Matthew Pianalto, graduate student, University of Arkansas. |
Suicide and Assisted Suicide
Chapter from Peter McWilliams book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do". |
Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul
The Complete 1783 Edition of David Hume's Essays. |
Suicide: A Civil Right
From the Antipsychiatry Coalition. |
Summa Theologica II-II, 64, 5
Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas. |
The Absurd Hero
Summary of "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus. |
The complete works of Robert Green Ingersoll
Includes five sections of his views on suicide. |
The Ethical Debate
Chapter 5 from "When Death is Sought - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context". A comprehensive historical and philosophical survey. |
The Murder of Oneself
A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide. |
The Right to Suicide by Patty Fleener M.S.W.
There should be no right to commit suicide, since suicidal people are not their real selves. |
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