BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- A NOTE ABOUT LANGUAGE AND STYLE -- 1 SUICIDE, LANGUAGE AND ETHICS -- NOTES -- 2 MORALS AND MEANS -- HOW MIGHT ONE SUICIDE? -- Actions, omissions and putting oneself in the way of anticipated events -- Suicide by actions -- Suicide by omission -- Self harming by putting oneself in the way of anticipated events -- IS SUICIDE OK? -- So is suicide OK? -- NOTES -- 3 WHERE DO OUR VIEWS OF SUICIDE COME FROM? -- TWO MAJOR INFLUENCES -- Medicine and suicide -- Concluding remarks about medicine and suicide -- Emotive and moralistic connotations of the language of suicide -- Suicide as an act 'committed' -- NOTES -- 4 OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM -- TERMINOLOGICAL CONFUSION -- Real and apparent terminological confusion in the literature -- Clare -- Glover -- Szasz -- Lester -- SUICIDE AND CONNOISSEURSHIP -- NOTE -- 5 SUICIDE AND INTENTION -- NOTE -- 6 DEFINING SUICIDE -- NOTES -- 7 EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM -- NOTE -- 8 LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA -- NOTES -- 9 VARIETIES OF SUICIDE -- NOTE -- 10 DIGGING UP THE PAST -- NOTES -- 11 THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE -- NOTES -- 12 AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS -- THINKING ABOUT AUTONOMY -- Autonomy and intervention in the lives of others -- THINKING ABOUT PATERNALISM -- THINKING ABOUT INTERVENTION IN SUICIDE -- Discussion of the suicider's intentions and wishes -- Persuasion -- Coercive intervention -- The overlap between discussion, persuasion and coercion -- What is at stake when one person intervenes in another's suicidal act? -- NOTES -- 13 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 1 -- ARGUMENTS FROM AUTONOMY -- Intervention in the suicidal acts of those whose actions are less than fully autonomous.

Immaturity or intellectual impairment -- Psychological disturbance -- Where the individual is badly informed -- Where the person's autonomy interests are best served by intervention -- OTHER VIEWS OF THE PROPRIETY OF INTERVENTION ON AUTONOMY GROUNDS -- Persuasion and limited coercion-Glover's view -- Harris and 'maximally autonomous decisions' -- NOTES -- 14 JUSTIFYING INTERVENTION 2 -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.