ABSTRACT
In Chapters 1 to 9, I have mainly addressed conceptual questions about the nature of suicide, comparing it with a variety of more and less related human phenomena. In doing so I have been attempting to sketch out a richer conceptual framework in terms of which we might talk about suicide and other suicidal self harmings. In Chapters 11 to 14, I want to turn to moral questions that suicide raises for those who unwittingly and unwillingly become involved with what, for the suicide, is the most personal of acts and for the suicider who does not intend by his act to end his life, is perhaps the most public of acts. Before doing that I want, in this chapter, to reopen some famous cases in which death was brought about by the actions of the person who died.
