The purpose of this work is to offer a critical examination of Immanuel Kant\u27s ethic of suicide. Kant\u27s suicidology marks an influential view regarding the moral stature of suicide, yet one that remains incomplete in important respects. Because Kant\u27s moral views are rationalistic, they restrict moral consideration to rational entities. Many people who commit suicide are not rational at the time of its commission, for they suffer from severe mental illness. Because of this, Kant\u27s suicidology devastatingly excludes certain human demographics from moral consideration, current Canadian statistics indicating that such people mark one of the highest populations at risk of committing suicide in the first place. This work contains a presentation, analysis, and critique of Kant\u27s ethic of suicide, leading to an attempt to state criteria for an adequate suicidology.Dept. of Philosophy. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2006 .T66. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0101. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2006
