Understanding assisted suicide : nine issues to consider / John B. Mitchell.

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007], ©2007.

x, 221 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-210) and index.

Cultural arguments that assisted suicide is always wrong -- Religious arguments for maintaining that suicide is morally "wrong" -- Utilitarian arguments against suicide -- The slippery slope phenomenon -- My path turns: looking at autonomy and moral claims to the right to assisted suicide -- Act utilitarianism as a moral basis for justifying assisted suicide -- The moral claim justifying physician-assisted suicide with the combination of autonomy and mercy -- Law and assisted suicide -- The question of whether legislatures should or should not legalize physician-assisted suicide.