John Donnelly is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of San Diego.
Description
Introduction; The Stoic View; The Catholic View; Reason and Superstition; Duties towards the Body in Regard to Life; Attitudes toward Suicide; Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death; Love and Death; Selling Death and Dignity; Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the AMA; Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, and Coercion; The Rhetoric of Suicide; Suicide and Self-Inflicted Death; Suicide and Self-Starvation; Mastering the Concept of Suicide; Suicide: Its Nature and Moral Evaluation; Preventing Suicide; The Ethics of Suicide; The Ethics of Suicide Prevention; Theistic and Nontheistic Arguments; Voluntary Death, Property Rights, and the Gift of Life; The Morality and Rationality of Suicide; On Choosing Death; The Art of Suicide; The Morality of Physician-Assisted Suicide; Is There a Right to Die?; Suicide and Rights.