Abstract
This chapter concerns the question whether suicide is irrational. More precisely, it concentrates on the central contemporary lines of argument for the view that suicide is irrational in connection with a case of a young person who thinks that he would be better off dead. I propose that the arguments do not show that suicide would be irrational in the person’s case. Yet I also maintain that, as dying need not be the only way of ending his suffering, it would be irrational of the individual to commit suicide. The considerations presented do not imply that suicide can never be rational.
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