Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Contemporary Debate -- 1.2 Natural Law Ethics -- 1.3 Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- 1.4 Subsequent Arrangement of the Book -- 2 Justifications for Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Invalid Religious Arguments -- 2.3 Inconsistency in Killing -- 2.4 A Life Worth Living -- 2.5 Arguments from Self-Determination -- 2.6 Rejection of Double Effect Reasoning -- 2.7 Politics, Anti-Perfectionism and Neutrality -- 3 A Revised Natural Law Ethics -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Secular not Supernatural -- 3.3 Non-natural not Natural -- 3.4 Whose Practical Rationality? -- 3.5 The First Principle of Practical Rationality -- 3.6 The Primary Goods of Persons -- 3.7 Non-Primary or Secondary Goods -- 3.8 Pluralism and Normative Theory -- 3.9 Key Requirements of Practical Rationality -- 4 The Good of Human Life -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Action Types -- 4.3 Elements of an Action -- 4.4 Normative Demands -- 4.5 Negative Demands and Concrete Moral Absolutes -- 4.6 Killing and Double Effect Reasoning -- 4.7 Disaster Escape Clauses -- 5 Suicide, Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthanasia -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Species of Homicide -- 5.3 Better Off Dead? -- 5.4 Quality-of-Life -- 5.5 Killing and Letting Die -- 5.6 Intentional Killing and Personal Autonomy -- 5.7 Some Interesting Cases from the Literature -- 6 Non-voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Already Dead -- 6.3 Not All Humans Beings Are Persons -- 6.4 Anencephalic Infants, PVS Patients and Non-voluntary Euthanasia -- 6.5 Involuntary Euthanasia -- 7 State Intervention and the Common Good -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Anti-Perfectionism and State Authority -- 7.3 Liberal Perfectionism -- 7.4 Natural Law Ethics and the Common Good -- 7.5 Slippery Slopes -- Conclusion.

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