morality

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• - Advocating suicide as a valid choice.
  
• - Summary of "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.
  
• - Bootlegging is likely to occur whenever a law prohibits a human need strong enough to incite people to satisfy it, even at considerable economic cost and personal risk.
  
• - Definitions and a short review of arguments against suicide and in defense of suicide.
  
• - on the proper time to slip the cable.
  
• - A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide.
  
• - From Dr. Ezio Vailati's course on Ethics.
  
• - Chapter from Peter McWilliams book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do".
  
• - Chapter 5 from "When Death is Sought - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context". A comprehensive historical and philosophical survey.
  
• - From the Antipsychiatry Coalition.
  
• - The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide.
  
• - Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one.
  
• - There should be no right to commit suicide, since suicidal people are not their real selves.
  
• - Links to philosophical studies of suicide and its meaning for us. Maintained by Matthew Pianalto, graduate student, University of Arkansas.
  
• - In-depth book review.
  
• - Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas.
  
• - By Arthur Schopenhauer.
  
• - Why, if at all, is it morally unacceptable for one to bring about one's own death? Considers the views of Hume, Kant and Utilitarianism.
  
• - By John Hardwig, Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.
  
• - The Complete 1783 Edition of David Hume's Essays.
  
• - Includes five sections of his views on suicide.