Dr. Herbert Hendin is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College. He previously served as medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. As a result of his extensive study of ...
Euthanasia
This book provides the reader with insight and enlightenment on the medical, philosophical, social, cultural and existential aspects of "good death" amid our digitized, individualized and ageing society, hampered by rising health care costs ...
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Explains what euthanasia is, explores arguments for and against it, and discusses the medical, legal, and ethical controversies surrounding it.
This book presents a simplistic way of thinking in a very complicated debate. It is about euthanasia, a topic which has been generally ignored and, unfortunately, in many countries has been misused or neglected.
This book examines the fundamental questions surrounding the issue of euthanasia today. What is euthanasia? What is assisted suicide? Does euthanasia equal death with dignity? Can euthanasia be properly regulated?
Euthanasia: Killing Or Caring?
Erika and Lewis record their last seven days alive until the fulfillment of the suicide pact Erika created.
Discusses passive and active euthanasia and some ethical and moral issues surrounding the topic.
The Supreme Court has ruled that there is no "constitutional right to die," but the question of whether terminally or perhaps merely incurably ill people should be able to have...
This timely work is a balanced overview of end-of-life issues related to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Euthanasia has long been a controversial issue among religious and political groups.
But as this book will show, euthanasia is an issue at the intersection of new technology, old laws, and timeless ethical quandaries, so that even apparently clear-cut cases have many contradictions.
But in this book, Peter Kurti argues these demands need to be resisted because of the impact individual choice about assisted suicide will have on wider society -- on the family, on friends, on the local community.
In most Council of Europe member states, active euthanasia or assisting a suicide are illegal.
Euthanasia: Legal Principles and Policy Choices
Discusses the issues raised by the question of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and the ethical problems that may arise.