Title

Why Suicide Is Like Contraception: A Women-Centered View

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

1998

Publication Title

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Abstract

A feminist view of contraception suggests an argument for a feminist view of rational suicide. To use contraception of sterilization is to view one's fertility as contingent rather than given, and to limit one's fertility as a way of maximizing one's interests and goals. To resort to rational suicide when faced with terminal illness or impending dementia is to view one's body's continued ability to pump blood and oxygen as contingent, and no longer a good for one's life but rather a threat to one's values and interests in how the final chapter of that life is written.

ISBN

415920027

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