On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death

On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death
ISBN-10
0253335639
ISBN-13
9780253335630
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Author
Jean Amery

Description

On Suicide is neither a defense of suicide nor an invitation to assisted suicide, but an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide. It is also a strident defense of the freedom of the individual and a plea for the recognition of the fact that we belong to ourselves before belonging to another person, or an institution, nation, or religion, and that our right to choose to end our life can have priority over social entanglements and biological destiny. Book jacket.

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