Concilium 179 Suicide and the Right to Die

New and old factors in suicide / Patrick Baudry -- Sociological approach to suicide, from Durkheim to the present day / Patrick Baudry -- Psychology of suicide / Heinz Henseler -- Respecting life and causing death in the medical context / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Ethical arguments in favour of suicide / Annemarie Pieper -- Associations for the right to die in dignity / Paula Caucanas-Pisier -- Church's traditional moral teaching on suicide / Niceto Blazquez -- Funeral rights for a suicide and liturgical developments / David Power -- "Life no longer has any meaning for me" / Jean-Pierre Jossua -- Right to a freely chosen death? / Adrian Holderegger -- Have Christians the right to kill themselves? / Harry Kuitert.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Pohier
• Assisted by: Dietmar Mieth (Editor), Jacques Pohier (Editor)
• Publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1985
• EAN: 9780567300591
• ISBN: 978-0-567-30059-1
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Concilium; Concilium,
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works