Author: Mike Quattrocchi
Mike Quattrocchi, PhD, is a retired clinical psychologist with a lengthy background of direct service in the public and private sectors and administrative oversight of various clinical settings; he has a special interest in selective areas of mental health law.
Alleging Suicide Is a Human Right
Suicide is a human capability in nature; to be recognized as something more, it takes society. For centuries, society’s major institutions have judged suicide as inherently aberrant. Not everyone has agreed, and over recent years support for rational suicide has advanced, with some framing it as a human right. Arguments treating suicide as a human …