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Suicide

Suppose someone is thinking about killing himself. Can philosophers or philosophy give him reasons for or against doing it? Or isn't suicide a philosophical subject?

Peter Lipton
November 20, 2005 (changed November 20, 2005) Permalink
Death and suicide figure prominently in Plato's work, in the Crito , Phaedo, and Apology.
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