Suicide, and how civilized people should respond to it, is an increasingly controversial topic in modern society

1: Defining Suicide in the Catholic Context; 2: The Changing Face of Despair: The Catholic Response to Ancient Suicide; 3: The Emergence of Modern Suicide; 4: Catholicism and the Morality of Suicide; 5: The Rationality of Suicide; 6: The Voluntariness of Rational Suicide; 7: Indirectly Intended Analgesic Suicide: Clarifying the Principles; 8: The Social Dynamics of Rational Suicide; 9: Proclaiming Hope and New Life to the Dying: Suicide and Pastoral Care