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The narcissism of assisted suicide: A shocking case shows that assisted suicide is about more than alleviating suffering. [Online article]

Yuill, Kevin (2015) The narcissism of assisted suicide: A shocking case shows that assisted suicide is about more than alleviating suffering. [Online article]. Brendan O'Neill, www.spiked-online.com.

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Abstract

In his sharply observed book The Culture of Narcissism, the American social critic Christopher Lasch remarked that, in modern life, ‘The usual defences against the ravages of age – identification with ethical or artistic values beyond one’s immediate interests, intellectual curiosity, the consoling emotional warmth derived from happy relationships in the past – can do nothing for the narcissist’. There is more than a whiff of narcissistic survivalism in the openness of many Western societies to assisted suicide. This was best symbolised by the trip Gill Pharaoh, a healthy, 75-year-old retired nurse, took to the LifeCircle suicide clinic in Switzerland. Pharaoh, who died on 21 July this year, was not ill, but wished to die.

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Depositing User: Kevin Yuill

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Item ID: 6046
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6046
Official URL: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-n...

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ORCID for Kevin Yuill: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6321-6616

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Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2016 10:38
Last Modified: 02 Feb 2021 16:14

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Author: Kevin Yuill ORCID iD

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Media and Communications

Subjects

Social Sciences > Health and Social Care
Culture > History and Politics

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