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The Ethics of Not-Being: Individual Options for Suicide (IN: Suicide: the Philosophical Issues, ed. by M P Battin & D J Mayo)
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Clements takes issue with the notion of rational suicide by arguing that rational calculation is something that takes place within life & presupposes a fundamental, “yea-saying” attitude toward life & the universe. For Clements, there is no way to justify preferring a “yea-saying” to a “nay-saying” attitude. She examines the implications of this claim for suicide intervention, for medical models of suicide, & other ways in which a yea-saying society responds to a nay-saying, suicidal individual.