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M. i: 1 7 9 .7 2118631 S u 3 * t Suicide:the philosophical ls s u e s STORAGB « DO NOT REMOVE CARDS FROM POCKET ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 46802 You may return this book to any agency, branch, or bookmobile of the Allen County Public Library. OfMCO /> /L ST£) SUICIDE: THE PHILOSOPHICAL _______ ISSUES SUICIDE: THE PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES Edited by M. PABST BATTIN and DAVID J. MAYO St. Martins Press New York Copyright © 1980 by M. Pabst Battin and David J. Mayo All rights reserved. For information, write: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10010. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Suicide, the philosophical issues. 1. Suicide—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Battin, M. Pabst. II. Mayo, David J. BD445.S93 179'.7 ' 79-27372 ISBN 0-312-77531-8 2118631 A. Alvarez, “The Background,” from The Savage God. A Study of Suicide. New York: Random House, Bantam edition June 1973. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. British Commonwealth rights by permission of Weidenfeld and Nicolson. R. G. Frey, “Did Socrates Commit Suicide?”, adapted from Philosophy 53 (1978). Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press. P. R. Baelz, “Suicide: Some Theological Reflections,” adapted from “Voluntary Euthanasia: Some Theological Reflections,” Theology 75 (May 1972). Reprinted by permission of The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Karen Lebacqz and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., “Suicide and Covenant,” adapted from “Suicide,” in Death, Dying and Euthanasia, ed. Dennis J. Horan and David Mall. Washington, D. C.: University Publica tions of America, 1977. Reprinted by permission of University Publica tions of America, Inc. Mary Rose Barrington, “Apologia for Suicide,” abridged from Euthanasia and the Right to Death, ed. A. B. Downing. London: Peter Owen, 1969. Reprinted by permission of Peter Owen, Ltd. Richard B. Brandt, “The Rationality of Suicide,” from “The Morality and Rationality of Suicide,” in A Handbook for the Study of Suicide, ed. Seymour Perlin. Copyright © 1975 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. Philip E. Devine, “On Choosing Death,” adapted from The Ethics of Homicide, by Philip E. Devine. Copyright © 1978 by Cornell University. Used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press. Joyce Carol Oates, “The Art of Suicide,” adapted from The Re- evaluation of Existing Values and the Search for Absolute Values, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences (Boston, 1978). Copyright © 1979 by the International Cultural Founda tion, Inc. Used by permission of the International Cultural Foundation Press. Thomas S. Szasz, “The Ethics of Suicide,” first published in The Antioch Review, Vol. XXXI, No. 1 (1971). Reprinted by permission of Thomas S. Szasz. vi Acknowledgments Eliot Slater, “Choosing the Time to Die,” from Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference for Suicide Prevention (London, 1969), ed. Richard Fox. Vienna: The International Association for Suicide Prevention, April, 1970. Reprinted by permission of Eliot Slater. Jerome A. Motto, “The Right to Suicide: A Psychiatrist’s View,” from Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall, 1972). Reprinted by permis sion of Human Sciences Press. Joel Feinberg, “Suicide and the Inalienable Right to Life," abridged and revised from “Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life,” the 1977 I'anner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Michigan and Stanford University. From The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Vol. 1. Copyright © 1979 by the University of Utah Press. Reprinted by permission. Also published in Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol 7, No. 2, Winter 1978. All other papers are original in this volume. M. Pabst Battin, “Manipulated Suicide,” will also appear in Bioethics Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer 1980).
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