Suicide

Until quite recently very little has been written by philosophers or other thinkers about the philosophical issues concerning suicide. However, the philosophical issues have now come to the fore and have engaged the attention of a wide variety of thinkers and theorists. Is suicide a right? Is it always an irrational choice? Does one have the legal right to commit suicide, or to assist someone to do so? Is heroic self-sacrifice a kind of suicide, and, if so, on what basis can we allow it? Can suicide be meaningful? Can it ever be morally right? In "Suicide: The Philosophical Issues", twenty-five distinguished contributors discuss these and other questions. The papers in this volume represent the full range of contemporary thinking on the subject. -- From publisher's description.

Medicina e Saúde