In this project, I expose conceptual and moral difficulties with the concept of rational suicide.
After offering a comprehensive list of criteria used to define rationality in the bioethics …

Abstract In “What is Wrong with Rational Suicide,” Pilpel and Amsel develop a
counterexample that allegedly confounds attempts to condition the moral permissibility of …

Logical analysis of arguments in favor of “rational suicide” reveals eleven commonly
encountered premises. Most of the premises are unclear on close scrutiny, and six are …

Recently, the 'right to die'became a major social issue. Few agree suicide is a right tout
court. Even those who believe suicide ('regular', passive, or physician-assisted) is …

Can suicide ever be considered rational? What is the definition of rational? According to
Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (1981, p. 951), the word rational has several …

Suicide has been condemned in our culture in one way or another since Augustine offered
theological arguments against it in the sixth century. More recently, theological …

The literature on rational suicide (RS) holds that if a rational person wishes to suicide under
circumstances deemed rational, there is no moral reason to prohibit a person from suiciding …

Many people believe that suicide is always either irrational or immoral, or both. I argue,
contra this view, that it is sometimes both rational and morally permissible. I first argue that it …

Abstract Richard Brandt, following Hume, famously argued that suicide could be rational. In
this he was going against a common 'absolutist'view that suicide is irrational almost by …

Suicide: A qualified defence Page 396 Chapter 24 Suicide: A Qualified Defense David Benatar
David Benatar begins by considering and rejecting a number of common arguments against …