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Informationen zum Autor Edited by John Donnelly Klappentext Classic volume revisits and clarifies the heated debate over life's ultimate choice.Updated and expanded with ten new selections, there is no more complete volume on the subject. Zusammenfassung Classic volume revisits and clarifies the heated debate over life's ultimate choice. Updated and expanded with ten new selections! there is no more complete volume on the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
