Chapter
Suicide and Virtue (IN: Suicide: the Philosophical Issues, ed. by M P Battin & D J Mayo)
Bogen J
Bogen argues that to understand moral questions about suicide in terms of rights, obligations, & duties is to miss the real question at hand: is suicide the kind of thing a good person would do? He points out the differences between this & the traditional ways of examining the morality of suicide. (4 refs.)