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Assisted Suicide Is Bootleg Suicide, By Thomas Szasz
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.
http://www.szasz.com/latimesnovember232001.html
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Book Review: Fatal Freedom
The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide.
http://www.szasz.com/ffreview.html
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Is There a Duty to Die?
By John Hardwig, Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.
http://web.utk.edu/~jhardwig/dutydie.htm
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Kevorkian Lies, and Suicide by Thomas S. Szasz
Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one.
http://www.szasz.com/iol7.html
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Killing Yourself
Definitions and a short review of arguments against suicide and in defense of suicide.
http://academics.vmi.edu/psy_dr/killing_yourself.htm
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Morality of Suicide
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.
http://members.tripod.com/jonelin/philosophy/suicide.htm
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Suicide
Suicide and the absurd. Contrasting the views of Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel.
http://www.nobunaga.demon.co.uk/htm/suicide.htm
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Suicide
From Dr. Ezio Vailati's course on Ethics.
http://www.siue.edu/~evailat/el8.html
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Suicide & Philosophy
Links to philosophical studies of suicide and its meaning for us. Maintained by Matthew Pianalto, graduate student, University of Arkansas.
http://comp.uark.edu/~mpianal/suicide.htm
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Suicide and Assisted Suicide
Chapter from Peter McWilliams book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do".
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/312.htm
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Suicide: A Civil Right
From the Antipsychiatry Coalition.
http://www.antipsychiatry.org/suicide.htm
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Summa Theologica II-II, 64, 5
Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas.
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/306405.htm
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The Absurd Hero
Summary of "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camusabs.htm
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The complete works of Robert Green Ingersoll
Includes five sections of his views on suicide.
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/
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The Ethical Debate
Chapter 5 from "When Death is Sought - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context". A comprehensive historical and philosophical survey.
http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/patient/chap5.htm
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The Murder of Oneself
A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide.
http://samvak.tripod.com/suicide.html
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The Right to Suicide by Patty Fleener M.S.W.
There should be no right to commit suicide, since suicidal people are not their real selves.
http://www.mental-health-today.com/articles/rightsui.htm
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