Suicide and Euthanasia: Historical and Contemporary Themes.

Suicide and Euthanasia

Brody, B., ed. Suicide and Euthanasia. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.

Unlike many questions in bioethics, the questions of suicide and euthanasia have been discussed at great length and with great sophistication throughout the history of Western thought. Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics in the ancient world, the medieval Jewish and Christian casuistrists, and such important modern philosophers and writers as Donne, Montaigne, Locke, Hume, and Kant all...