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The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age: Contributions in Philosophy

Autor Professor C.G. Prado
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 oct 1998 – vârsta până la 17 ani
The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal diminishment even at the cost of good time left. Criteria are provided to help determine whether soundly reasoned, cogently motivated,and prudently timed self-destruction can be in one's interests late in life. In our time suicide and assisted suicide are being increasingly tolerated as ways to escape unendurable mental or physical suffering, but it isn't widely accepted that suicide may be a rational choice before the onset of such suffering. This book's basic claim is that it can be rational to choose to die sooner as oneself than to survive as a lessened other: that judicious appropriation of one's own inevitable death can be an identity-affirming act and a fitting end to life.Discussion of preemptive suicide goes beyond contributing to current widespread debate about assisted suicide. It is a matter tightly interrelated with other right to die questions and one bound to become a national issue. If there are good arguments for escaping intolerable situations caused by age-related deteriorative conditions, most of those arguments will equally support avoidance of those conditions. If assisted suicide becomes more generally acknowledged and accepted, preemptive suicide will almost certainly follow. It is crucial, then, to examine whether preemptive suicide constitutes a rational option for reflective aging individuals.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313305849
ISBN-10: 0313305846
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Contributions in Philosophy

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

C. G. PRADO is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He is the author of seven books, two on aging and suicide. He is also the author of some thirty articles and is co-author of a book on assisted suicide.

Cuprins

PrefaceCoherence, Choice, and DeathThe Crisis of AgingSuicide and RationalityA Question of BalanceSuicidists' InterestsA Matter of TimeInclining Toward SuicideTheory and ValueBibliographyIndex