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
Keywords
rational suicide, contraception, sterilization
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
Repository Citation
Dena S. Davis, Why Suicide Is Like Contraception: A Women-Centered View, in Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate 113-122 (M. Battin, R. Rhodes & A. Silvers, eds., Routledge 1998)
