Suicide and the right to die
By: edited by Jacques Pohier and Dietmar Mieth ; English language editor, Marcus Lefébure.
Contributors: Pohier, Jacques Marie.; Mieth, Dietmar.; Lefébure, Marcus.
Series: Concilium,; 179; Concilium (Glen Rock, N.J.) ;; v. 179.
Publisher: T. & T. Clark
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines.; Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Euthanasia -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Some of these articles are translations from the French, German, and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: New and old factors in suicide / Patrick Baudry; title: The sociological approach to suicide, from Durkheim to the present day / Patrick Baudry; title: The psychology of suicide / Heinz Henseler; title: Respecting life and causing death in the medical context / Lisa Sowle Cahill; title: Ethical arguments in favour of suicide / Annemarie Pieper; title: Associations for the right to die in dignity / Paula Caucanas-Pisier; title: The church's traditional moral teaching on suicide / Niceto Blázquez; title: The funeral rights for a suicide and liturgical developments / David Power; title: "Life no longer has any meaning for me" / Jean-Pierre Jossua; title: A right to a freely chosen death? / Adrian Holderegger; title: Have Christians the right to kill themselves? / Harry Kuitert.