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The Ethical Debate  - http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/patient/chap5.htm  Chapter 5 from "When Death is Sought - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context". A comprehensive historical and philosophical survey.  Morality of Suicide  - http://members.tripod.com/jonelin/philosophy/suicide.htm  Why, if at all, is it morally unacceptable for one to bring about one's own death? Considers the views of Hume, Kant and Utilitarianism.  Suicide: A Civil Right  - http://www.antipsychiatry.org/suicide.htm  From the Antipsychiatry Coalition.  Summa Theologica II-II, 64, 5  - http://www.newadvent.org/summa/306405.htm  Is it lawful to kill oneself? By St. Thomas Aquinas.  Suicide and Assisted Suicide  - http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/aint/312.htm  Chapter from Peter McWilliams book "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do".  The complete works of Robert Green Ingersoll  - http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/  Includes five sections of his views on suicide.  The Murder of Oneself  - http://samvak.tripod.com/suicide.html  A critical overview of ethical issues involved in suicide.  The Absurd Hero  - http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camusabs.htm  Summary of "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.  Suicide  - http://www.nobunaga.demon.co.uk/htm/suicide.htm  Suicide and the absurd. Contrasting the views of Albert Camus and Thomas Nagel.  On Suicide  - http://www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/Schopenhauer_On_Suicide_1.html  By Arthur Schopenhauer.  Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul  - http://eserver.org/18th/hume-suicide.txt  The Complete 1783 Edition of David Hume's Essays.  Book Review: Fatal Freedom  - http://www.szasz.com/ffreview.html  The book defends autonomy and liberty by speaking out for the right to suicide.  Kevorkian Lies, and Suicide by Thomas S. Szasz  - http://www.szasz.com/iol7.html  Szasz objects to physician-assisted suicide which makes suicide a medical issue rather than a moral one.  Assisted Suicide Is Bootleg Suicide, By Thomas Szasz  - http://www.szasz.com/latimesnovember232001.html  Bootlegging is likely to occur whenever a law prohibits a human need strong enough to incite people to satisfy it, even at considerable economic cost and personal risk.  Suicide & Philosophy  - http://comp.uark.edu/~mpianal/suicide.htm  Links to philosophical studies of suicide and its meaning for us. Maintained by Matthew Pianalto, graduate student, University of Arkansas.  Is There a Duty to Die?  - http://web.utk.edu/~jhardwig/dutydie.htm  By John Hardwig, Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.  Suicide  - http://www.siue.edu/~evailat/el8.html  From Dr. Ezio Vailati's course on Ethics.  Seneca, Epistle 70  - http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/Seneca/epistles/ep70.htm  on the proper time to slip the cable.  The Right to Suicide by Patty Fleener M.S.W.  - http://www.mental-health-today.com/articles/rightsui.htm  There should be no right to commit suicide, since suicidal people are not their real selves.  Metapsychology Online Book Reviews - Fatal Freedom  - http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2478  In-depth book review.  Seneca: On Taking One's Own Life  - http://www.molloy.edu/academic/philosophy/sophia/Seneca/epistles/ep77.htm  Advocating suicide as a valid choice.  Killing Yourself  - http://academics.vmi.edu/psy_dr/killing_yourself.htm  Definitions and a short review of arguments against suicide and in defense of suicide.