Assisted Suicide

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reasons. A lot of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two different categories, rational suicide and irrational suicide. A rational suicide has been given five basic criteria that usually must be met for the person's act to be considered rational. The five criteria which a person must show for their suicide to be considered rational are, "the ability to reason, realistic world view, adequacy of information, avoidance of harm, and accordance with fundamental interests."(Battin 1"2) Another opinion of rationality of suicide is, "it is the best thing for him from the point of view of his own welfare-or whether it is the best thing for someone being advised, from the point of view of that person's welfare"(Brandt 118). People have to characterize suicides because a lot of times they don't understand what that person is going through so by grouping them and placing criteria on them it allows them to accept it in an easier manner.
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day doesn't actually mean you have a rational reason to go out and throw yourself off a building or tie a rope around your neck.
Another big issue about suicide today is the one that deals with . When we think about this the first person who pops in our mind is Dr. Jack Kervorkian. Yet Kervorkian was not the first, "The Hemlock Society was founded by Derek Humphry, a british journalist, in Los Angeles in 1980. The organization advocated active euthanasia, or aiding the death of a hopelessly ill individual."(Long 76) This society was responsible for several deaths because of their "listing of lethal doses of eighteen commonly prescribed drugs and a manual on suicide, which quickly became ...

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