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Dr. Margaret Battin University of Utah

Teen suicide Always bad

2000BCE450BCE Approve Disapprove Egyptian Didactic Tale Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha 13 th Khanda Isa Upanishads Sallekhana Jain Tradition Violent suicide Confucius Sophocles Euripides Preventing old age Hippocratic Corpus

Situational Self sacrifice (several) Old age (Ancient Greeks) Impassioned action vs. Contemplative movement to the next life (Jain) vs.

The Oath Actual Practice About Maidens …I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan… -Hippocratic Oath

450BCE Plato Approve Disapprove Responsible (Socrates) Without good reason Aristotle Chrysippus 0 LivySeneca Stoics Ignatius Josephus Interpretation? The New Testament Justin Martyr Martyrdom Suicide? 150 CE

All over the place

Chrysippuss 5 reasons Commanded to do so by a higher authority To avoid being forced to do shameful things Serious illness Poverty Dementedness Seneca: Wise mans decision

…I shall willingly die for God… I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts… Then I shall truly be a disciple of Christ… …May I enjoy the wild beasts that are prepared for me; and I pray they may be found eager to rush upon me…and not deal with me as with some, whom, out of fear, they have not touched. -Ignatius of Antioch But if they be unwilling to assail me, I will compel them to do so.

al-Bukhari 150 Approve Disapprove 1300 Ambrose Preserving Virginity Augustine Martyrdom? The Quran Henry de Bracton Aquinas Catholic position henceforth Angela of Foligno Self-invited martyrdom

Christians become increasingly negative Exceptions Martyrdom: Suicide or something else?

Approve Disapprove Thomas More Martin Luther Glory of God (Christ) Daidoji Yuzan (Samurai, Busido) John Donne Chikamatsu Monzaemon Cotton Mather David Hume Immanuel Kant Cato

Wide swings back and forth

Many varied views that change over time

Approve Disapprove On the Influence of Passions Reflections on Suicide Hara Kiri John Stuart Mill Madame de Stael Nietzsche Hindu Widow

Suicide as a function of psychopathology Suicide as a function of societal organization The ethical issues seemed to be eclipsed by the notion that suicide is caused

Many widely disagreeing opinions

Kamikaze Jihad

Szmul Zygielbojm protesting the extermination of Polish Jews Buddhist monks and nuns protesting Vietnamese War

Its an ongoing issue or legal in all of these countries:

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