The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age

by C.G. Prado

Book Overview

The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal diminishment even at the cost of good time left. Criteria are provided to help determine whether soundly reasoned, cogently motivated, and prudently timed self-destruction can be in one's interests late in life. In our time suicide and assisted suicide are being increasingly tolerated as ways to escape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305846
• ISBN13: 9780313305849
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"