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ALONSO SALAS, Ángel. Suicide: do right of self-determination physics or exercise freedom with regard to life itself?. EPISTEME [online]. 2010, vol.30, n.2, pp.49-60. ISSN 0798-4324.

Without a doubt, the suicide act is considered as a unnatural act or deci- sion conditioned by external factors. There are cases which may pose suicide as a rational and legitimate option i. e., the Stoics. This paper will be the reflection of the suicide act (rational, deliberate) of a dilemma: first of all understand that act as one of the “rights of physical self-determination”, which raises voluntary death as one of the “fourth generation” rights, and, secondly, as an “exercise of the free- dom that a subject is carrying out with his own life”. This paper will include cases where suicide is a decision based and legitimized by the principles of bioethics or by the autonomy and freedom of the subject in itself.

Palabras clave : Suicide; physical self-determination; law.

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