Ethical Issues in SuicidePrentice-Hall, 1995 - 240 sider This book provides a broad, systematic, and comprehensive exploration of both historical and contemporary argumentation concerning suicide. It probes the underlying ethical, religious and philosophical issues about self-caused death, and shows how they are crucial in the current debate. |
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... consider it a benefit to save someone's life , even though his or her life may involve pain . But we do not always consider preserving life a good , as Philippa Foot's examples may show : Suppose , for instance , that a man were being ...
... consider it a benefit to save someone's life , even though his or her life may involve pain . But we do not always consider preserving life a good , as Philippa Foot's examples may show : Suppose , for instance , that a man were being ...
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... Consider , for instance , the ubiquitous " get - even " suicides , consciously or subconsciously intended to produce guilt , remorse , or injury to an- other person ; obviously , suicide of this sort displays human nature at its least ...
... Consider , for instance , the ubiquitous " get - even " suicides , consciously or subconsciously intended to produce guilt , remorse , or injury to an- other person ; obviously , suicide of this sort displays human nature at its least ...
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... consider such a thing . Were it not for the cultural taboo and the inherited notions of suicide as crime and as sin , suicide might indeed be much more common and ac- cepted than it now is . Barrington , we saw , thinks that suicide ...
... consider such a thing . Were it not for the cultural taboo and the inherited notions of suicide as crime and as sin , suicide might indeed be much more common and ac- cepted than it now is . Barrington , we saw , thinks that suicide ...
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INTRODUCTION SUICIDETHE CURRENT VIEW | 1 |
PREDICTION AND PREVENTION | 12 |
THE SUICIDE TABOO | 19 |
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