The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide

Michael Cholbi is Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (2011) and an editor of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (second edition, 2023). Professor Cholbi is the founder of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and serves on the editorial boards of the journals Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Philosophical Quarterly.Paolo Stellino is Researcher at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and Invited Professor of the Department of Philosophy, NOVA University of Lisbon. His main fields of research interest are the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy, ethics (with a specific focus on philosophy of suicide), and philosophy of film. He is the author of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: On the Verge of Nihilism (2015) and Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant,Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein (2020).

• List of Contributors1. Introduction: Past and Contemporary Perspectives on the Philosophy of Suicide Michael Cholbi, Paolo StellinoPART I: Suicide in Philosophical Traditions 2. Suicide in Asian Traditions Charles Goodman3. Suicide in Ancient Greece Anna B. Christensen4. Suicide in Roman PhilosophyHélder Telo5. The Christian Prohibition of SuicidePhilip A. Reed6. Suicide in Islam: Classical and Contemporary ApproachesAbdullah Saeed, Ali Akbar 7. Suicide in Early Modern Western PhilosophyColin Heydt 8. Suicide in Modern Western Philosophy Héctor Wittwer9. Suicide in Contemporary Western Philosophy I: the 19th CenturyPatrick Hassan 10. Suicide in Contemporary Western Philosophy II: the Philosophy of Suicide in Twentieth-Century Continental PhilosophyYael LaviPART II: Foundational Issues 11. What Is Suicide? Steven Luper12. Choosing Death: Virtue Ethics and SuicideLiezl van Zyl13. Kantian Approaches to SuicideLina Papadaki 14. Utilitarianism and SuicideTorbjörn Tännsjö 15. The Rationality of Suicide Frances M. Kamm16. Suicide's Relation to Freedom Paolo Stellino17. Is There a Right to Suicide? Chris Belshaw18. Is There a Duty to Suicide?Chris Belshaw19. The Value of Death and SuicideTravis Timmerman20. Suicide and PessimismAndrea S. Asker21. Suicide and Life's Meaningfulness Michael HauskellerPART III: Suicide in Practice22. Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide PreventionMichael Cholbi23. Assisted Suicide: Deliverance or Danger?Felicia Nimue Ackerman 24. Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self-InjuryZsuzsanna Chappell25. The Risks and Rewards of New Suicide TechnologiesAdam Buben26. Grief and Suicide Becky Miller27. Suicide as a Protest Antti Kauppinen28. Suicide TourismDaniel Sperling29. Suicide and DepressionNathaniel Sharadin30. Suicide and Mental IllnessHane Htut Maung31. Suicide and Media EthicsSallyanne Duncan32. Suicide, Social Media, and Artificial IntelligenceErick Ramirez and Susan Kennedy33. Suicide in the Moving ImageDavid Sorfa34. Suicide and GenderKatrina JaworskiIndex