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WHAT IS IT TO COMMIT SUICIDE?
Author(s) -
Hill Daniel J.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00493.x
Subject(s) - commit , reflexive pronoun , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , database
In this article I defend a new definition of what it is to commit suicide: (D) A commits suicide by performing an act x if and only if A intends that he or she kill himself or herself by performing x (under the description ‘I kill myself’), and this intention is fully satisfied. The definition has some surprising implications: various real‐life examples often referred to as ‘suicides’ (e.g. ‘suicide bombers’) may well turn out not to be suicides after all. 1