Directory of Morality Resources

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Philosophical and ethical views.

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• Book Review: Fatal Freedom

  http://www.szasz.com/ffreview.html
  The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide.

• Is There a Duty to Die?

  http://web.utk.edu/~jhardwig/dutydie.htm
  By John Hardwig, Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.

• Kevorkian Lies, and Suicide by Thomas S. Szasz

  http://www.szasz.com/iol7.html
  Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one.

• MH Today: The Right to Suicide

  http://www.mental-health-today.com/articles/rightsui.htm
  Written by Patty E. Fleener, arguing the mentally ill have no right to kill themselves because their illness inhibits good decision making.

• Morality of Suicide

  http://members.tripod.com/jonelin/philosophy/suicide.htm
  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.

• Suicide

  http://www.nobunaga.demon.co.uk/htm/suicide.htm
  Suicide and the absurd. Contrasting the views of Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel.

• Suicide

  http://www.siue.edu/~evailat/el8.html
  From Dr. Ezio Vailati's course on Ethics.

• Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul

  http://eserver.org/18th/hume-suicide.txt
  The Complete 1783 Edition of David Hume's Essays.

• Suicide is Not Painless

  http://suicide-is-not-painless.blogspot.co.uk/
  Approaches the subject from a biblical perspective.

• Suicide: A Civil Right

  http://www.antipsychiatry.org/suicide.htm
  From the Antipsychiatry Coalition.

• Summa Theologica II-II, 64, 5

  http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3064.htm
  Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas.

• The Murder of Oneself

  http://samvak.tripod.com/suicide.html
  A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide.

 

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