In this thoughtful and compelling analysis, the world's foremost
critic of coercions of the psychiatric institution defends a
patient's right to choose life or death.
Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right
to choose a voluntary death. By maintaining statutes that determine
that voluntary death is not legal, Thomas Szasz believes that our
society is forfeiting one of its basic freedoms and causing the
psychiatric medical establishment to treat individuals in a manner
that is disturbingly inhumane.
Society's penchant for defining behavior it terms objectionable
as a disease has created a psychiatric establishment that exerts
far too much influence over how and when we choose to die. In a
compelling argument, which clearly and intelligently addresses the
most significant ethical issues of our time, Szasz compares suicide
to other practices that historically began as sins, became crimes,
and then mental illnesses.
This book answers some of the most significant ethical questions
of our time: Is suicide a voluntary act or an act of mental
illness? Should physicians be permitted to prevent it? Should they
be authorized to abet it?
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