For commentary on this problem by contemporary philosophers see, for example: SumnerL.S., “A Matter of Life and Death,”Nous, X, 2 (May 1976): 157–160; Thomas Nagel, “Death” in RachelsJames, ed., Moral Problems: A Collection of Philosophical Essays, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), pp. 401-409; Warren Quinn, “Abortion: Identity and Loss,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 13 (Winter 1984): 42.
2.
“Epicurus to Menoeceus,” trans. C. Bailey, in MeldenA. I., ed., Ethical Theories, 2nd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: 1967), pp. 143–149.
3.
FeinburgJoel, “Harm and Self-Interest,” in HackerP. M. S., and RazJ., eds. Law, Morality and Society: Essays in Honour of H. L. A. Hart (New York: Oxford, 1977), p. 300.
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SidgwickHenry, The Methods of Ethics, 7th ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907).
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SilversteinHarry, “The Evil of Death,”The Journal of Philosophy, LXXVII (July 1980): 404.
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Silverstein, p. 402.
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FlewAnthony, “The Principle of Euthanasia,” in HuntRobert, and ArrasJohn eds., Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine (Palo Alto, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1977), pp. 225–239.
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The expression seems quite popular in the mass media. Interestingly enough, the title of the text in which Flew's essay first appeared was Euthanasia and the Right to Death. [DowningA.B., ed. (Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1969).]
