Concilium 179 Suicide and the Right to Die

By Dietmar Mieth and Jacques Pohier

New and old factors in suicide / Patrick Baudry -- Sociological approach to suicide, from Durkheim to the present day / Patrick Baudry -- Psychology of suicide / Heinz Henseler -- Respecting life and causing death in the medical context / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Ethical arguments in favour of suicide / Annemarie Pieper -- Associations for the right to die in dignity / Paula Caucanas-Pisier -- Church's traditional moral teaching on suicide / Niceto Blazquez -- Funeral rights for a suicide and liturgical developments / David Power -- "Life no longer has any meaning for me" / Jean-Pierre Jossua -- Right to a freely chosen death? / Adrian Holderegger -- Have Christians the right to kill themselves? / Harry Kuitert.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567300595
• ISBN13: 9780567300591
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 120 Pages