#1279 Patrick Hassan: An Open Conversation About Suicide with a Philosopher

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm here with a returned guest, Dr. Patrick Hassan. He is senior lecturer at the School of English Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University. And today we're going to talk about

I mean, basically the philosophy of suicide, we've already had that sort of discussion on the show, but today we're going to have a more uh open discussion about the topic of suicide. So, Dr. Hassan, welcome back to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you for having me once again.

Yeah, it's a pleasure. Okay, so I mean, I decided on a few topics here, but of course we don't have to just uh stay uh i i mean to just uh restrict ourselves to the topics i chose so uh but i would like to start by asking you this do you think that a suicide should always be uh medicalized because i mean particularly in our more modern Western societies, countries who I mean we tend very much to do that. For example, whenever someone just expresses a wish to die or to commit suicide, I mean, there's even suicide prevention lines that even other people

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