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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The New Face of Suicide; Contents; 1. Defining Suicide in the Catholic Context; Defining Suicide Broadly; Narrow Definitions of Suicide; A More Adequate Definition of Suicide; What Counts as a Suicide; Conclusion ; 2. The Changing Face of Despair: The Catholic Response to Ancient Suicide; Suicide in Preliterate Society; Hellenistic Suicide: A Schizophrenic Approach; Roman Suicide: Libertinism and the Trivialization of Human Life; The Judeo-Christian Response to Ancient Suicide; Suicide in Early Christianity |
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Suicide in Medieval ChristianityConclusion; 3. The Emergence of Modern Suicide; Suicide in Japan; Suicide in India; Renaissance Suicide and the Age of Melancholy; The Enlightenment and the Reemergence of Suicide; Romantic Suicide: The New Circumcellions; Absurdity, Dada, and Suicide; Modern Suicide: The New Dilemma; 4. Catholicism and the Morality of Suicide; A Survey of Contemporary Literature; The Biblical Teachings on Suicide; The Catholic Moral Arguments against Suicide; The Critique of the Catholic Teachings on Suicide; Conclusion; 5. The Rationality of Suicide; Suicide as a Rational Act |
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Suicide as an Irrational ActionThe Rationality of Suicide from a Catholic Perspective; Conclusion; 6. The Voluntariness of Rational Suicide; The Suicidal Decision: A Psychological Portrait; Suicide and Voluntariness; The Subvoluntary Character of Suicide; Adequate Knowledge, True Presumptions, and Voluntary Suicide ; Subjective Freedom and Rational Suicide; Suicide, Voluntariness, and Consent; When is Suicide a Voluntary Decision? The Hard Cases; Voluntariness and Suicide of Escape; Voluntariness and Suicide to Protect Dignity; Conclusion |
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7. Indirectly Intended Analgesic Suicide: Clarifying the PrinciplesRecent Developments in Analgesic Therapy; New Perspectives on Pain Control; Advanced Psychological and Surgical Approaches to Pain Relief; New Developments in Nonopiate Analgesia; New Developments in Opiate Analgesia; Questions Concerning Indirectly Lethal Analgesia; Conclusion; 8. The Social Dynamics of Rational Suicide; Killing to Control Suffering: An Uncontrollable Practice; Protecting the Common Law Tradition on Suicide; Protecting the Integrity of the Healing Professions |
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The Social Benefits of Suicide: Claims and CounterclaimsThe Harm Suicide Does to Society; Conclusion; 9 Proclaiming Hope and New Life to the Dying: Suicide and Pastoral Care; The Doctrines of Euthanasia and Pastoral Care -- Christian Suicide: Problems and Paradoxes; The Theology of Euthanasia and Pastoral Care -- Pastoral Ministry to the Suicidal: Shepherding to Hope; Conclusion ; Index |
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Print version record |
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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Catholic Church fast |
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Right to die.
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Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Assisted suicide.
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Rational suicide.
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Right to Die
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Suicide, Assisted
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suicides.
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Assisted suicide
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Rational suicide
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Right to die
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Suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
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Theology, Doctrinal
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351530798 |
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1351530798 |
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