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      Stoic defence of physician-assisted suicide Translated title: Defesa estoica do suicídio assistido por médico Translated title: Defensa estoica del suicidio asistido por el médico

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          Rational suicide can be minimally defined as: instrumentally rational, autonomous, due to stable goals and not due to mental illness. One major problem with rational suicide is that it tends toward a technical psychiatric definition, excluding any philosophical explanation of why rational suicide could be ethically justified. In other words, there is a tendency towards an instrumental view of rationality which concentrates on safeguarding the rational means of suicide, rather than fully considering the rational ends of why suicide could be ethically justified in certain special and controlled circumstances. To begin, the plausibility of rational suicide is explored. Following on, the classical stoic idea of rational ends of suicide is then reframed for a more contemporary audience in the socially relevant context of physician-assisted suicide.

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          Suicídio racional pode ser minimamente definido como: instrumentalmente racional, autônomo, causado por objetivos estáveis enão derivado de doença mental. Um importante problema com o suicídio racional é a sua tendência de uma definição técnica psiquiátrica, excluindo qualquer explicação filosófica do porquê que o suicídio racional poderia ser eticamente justificado. Em outras palavras, há uma tendência do ponto de vista instrumental de racionalidade que concentra sob salvaguardas os meios racionais de suicídio, em vez de considerar totalmente as finalidades racionais pelas quais o suicídio poderia ser eticamente justificado em certas circunstâncias, especiais e controladas. Para começar, a plausibilidade do suicídio racional é explorada. Em seguida, a clássica ideia estoica dos fins racionais do suicídio é, então reformulada para um público mais contemporâneo num contexto socialmente relevante do suicídio assistido por médico.

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          El suicidio racional puede definirse mínimamente como: racional instrumentalmente, autónomo, debido a metas estables y no a enfermedad mental. Un problema mayor con el suicidio racional es que tiende hacia una definición técnica psiquiátrica, excluyendo cualquiera explicación filosófica sobre su justificación ética. En otras palabras, existe una tendencia hacia una visión instrumental de la racionalidad, porque se concentra en salvaguardar los medios racionales de suicidio, más que en considerar plenamente los fines racionales de por qué el suicidio podría ser éticamente justificado en ciertas circunstancias especiales y controladas. Para comenzar, se explora la posibilidad de suicidio racional. Luego, la idea estoica clásica de los fines racionales del suicidio es reformulada para una audiencia más contemporánea, en el contexto socialmente relevante de suicidio asistido por el médico.

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            The concept of rational suicide.

            D J Mayo (1986)
            Suicide has been condemned in our culture in one way or another since Augustine offered theological arguments against it in the sixth century. More recently, theological condemnation has given way to the view that suicidal behavior must always be symptomatic of emotional disturbance and mental illness. However, suicide has not always been viewed so negatively. In other times and cultures, it has been held that circumstances might befall a person in which suicide would be a perfectly rational course of action, in the same sense that any other course of action could be rational: that it could be sensible, i.e., defensible by good reasons, or that it could be in keeping with the agent's fundamental interests. Indiscriminate use of modern life-sustaining technologies has renewed interest in the possibility of rational suicide. Today proponents of rational suicide tend to equate the rationality of suicide with the competence of the decision to commit suicide.
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              What is Wrong with Rational Suicide

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                Journal
                abioeth
                Acta bioethica
                Acta bioeth.
                Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioética, Universidad de Chile (Santiago )
                1726-569X
                June 2014
                : 20
                : 1
                : 99-108
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                [1 ] University of Leicester UK
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                S1726-569X2014000100011
                10.4067/S1726-569X2014000100011
                7300fb9a-febd-4753-bd16-91d63685b830

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                ETHICS
                MEDICAL ETHICS
                SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL

                General medicine,Ethics,Health & Social care
                autopreservação,physician-assisted suicide,rational suicide,stoicism,self-preservation,suicídio medicamente assistido,suicidio racional,estoicismo,suicídio racional,suicidio asistido por el médico,autopreservación

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