Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Kevin Yuill

   Pages 1-9

3. Defining the Terms

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   Pages 10-29

4. An Analysis of the Key Arguments on Both Sides

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   Pages 30-59

5. The Origins of the Right-to-Die Movement

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6. Considering Suicide

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   Pages 83-111

7. For Abortion, Against Assisted Suicide

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8. The Coercive Implications of Legalization

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9. Conclusions

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10. Back Matter

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This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide – not euthanasia – are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.

• abortion
• euthanasia
• suicide
• thinking

• University of Sunderland, UK

  Kevin Yuill

Kevin Yuill lectures in History at the University of Sunderland, UK, specializing in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. He has published articles on assisted suicide in the Spectator, The Tablet and numerous other places. He is the author of Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action.

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