Questions surrounding suicide have been with us for at least as long as we’ve had written record, and the answers are as varied as the times and places where they were discussed. Friday, Doug sits down with philosophy scholar Margaret Battin. She’s spent her career collecting the works of religious and secular thinkers regarding suicide. It has been considered noble, immoral, heroic and cowardly, and we’ll talk about what all of those views teach us about end-of-life issues today. [Rebroadcast]
Margaret Battin is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and an Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. Her books include Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die [Indiebound|Amazon] and The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources [Indiebound|Amazon]
On Tuesday, June 14, Utah's League of Women Voters and Compassion & Choices are sponsoring a conversation with Daniel Diaz, husband of Brittany Maynard. The couple made headlines when they moved to Oregon to facilitate Brittany's end of life choice. The event begins at 6:00 p.m., and will be held at the Eccles Health Sciences Education Building at the University of Utah. [More Information]
Oxford University Press and the University of Utah have partnered to create The Ethics of Suicide Digital Archives, which houses historical sources.
- American Foundation for Prevention of Suicide, www.afsp.org
- National crisis hotline, 800-273-TALK (8255)
- Utah Suicide Hotline
Valley Mental Health
Crisis Line, 24 hours / 7 days
(801) 261-1442
