The spectrum of views about the ethics of suicide-from the view that suicide is profoundly morally wrong to the view that it is a matter of basic human right, and from the view that it is primarily a private matter to the view that it is largely a social one-lies at the root of …
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "nobl…
Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a ""nob…
"More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a p…
More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. Confined to a wheelchair for the past fifty years, struggling against her own paralysis, Tada has herself questioned: why not end it all quickly, painlessly? Here she offers alternatives of hope, compassi…
"Suicide is one of the major causes of violent death in our society. The fact that adolescents and the elderly are the two population groups with the highest rates of suicide challenges many assumptions of the past regarding human development. By the time they reach their teens,…
"Suicide is one of the major causes of violent death in our society. The fact that adolescents and the elderly are the two population groups with the highest rates of suicide challenges many assumptions of the past regarding human development. By the time they reach their teens,…
Offering a valuable perspective on New Religious Movements and on religion and violence, 'Sacred Suicide' brings together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars of sociology, religious studies and criminology.
