Assisted Suicide

Assisted Suicide

Introduction

Assisted suicide is a profoundly disturbing phenomenon that raises important ethical and practical issues. This issue is highly controversial because every year majority of people takes their own lives. It concerns why do they do it and what can sociology teach us about this phenomenon and how can we reduce it.

Assisted Suicide

Assisted suicide refers to a range of destructive behaviors ranging from non-fatal acts which have been called suicidal gestures, attempted suicide, para-suicide self-injury, or if poisoning is used; more recently, it involves intentional and harm by other person, to fatal acts in which the person dies, commonly called ...