Death with Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death with Dignity write by Robert Orfali. This book was released on 2011. Death with Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book the author makes a case for legalized physician-assisted dying. Using the latest data from Oregon and the Netherlands, he puts a new slant on perennial debate topics such as "slippery slopes," "the integrity of medicine," and "sanctity of life." This book provides an in-depth look at how we die in America today. It examines the shortcomings of our end-of-life system. You will learn about terminal torture in hospital ICUs and about the alternatives: hospice and palliative care. The author scrutinizes the good, the bad, and the ugly. He provides a critique of the practice of palliative sedation. The book makes a strong case that assisted dying complements hospice. By providing both, Oregon now has the best palliative-care system in America. This book, above all, may help you or someone you care about navigate this strange landscape we call "end of life." It can be an informed guide to "a good death" in the age of hospice and high-tech medical intervention.
Dying with Dignity
Dying with Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dying with Dignity write by Giza Lopes. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Dying with Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad. Should terminally ill adults be allowed to kill themselves with their physician's assistance? While a few American states—as well as Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg—have answered "yes," in the vast majority of the United States, assisted death remains illegal. This book provides a historical and comparative perspective that not only frames contemporary debates about assisted death and deepens readers' understanding of the issues at stake, but also enables realistic predictions for the likelihood of the future diffusion of legalization to more countries or states—the consequences of which are vast. Spanning a period from 1906 to the present day, Dying with Dignity: A Legal Approach to Assisted Death examines how and why pleas for legalization of "euthanasia" made at the beginning of the 20th century were transmuted into the physician-assisted suicide laws in existence today, in the United States as well as around the world. After an introductory section that discusses the phenomenon of "medicalization" of death, author Giza Lopes, PhD, covers the history of the legal development of "aid-in-dying" in the United States, focusing on case studies from the late 1900s to today, then addresses assisted death in select European nations. The concluding section discusses what the past legal developments and decisions could portend for the future of assisted death.
Death and Dignity
Death and Dignity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Dignity write by Timothy E. Quill. This book was released on 1994. Death and Dignity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encourages patients to become active participants in the process of fighting disease, and includes guidelines for medically-assisted suicide.
Physician-Assisted Death
Physician-Assisted Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physician-Assisted Death write by James M. Humber. This book was released on 1994-02-04. Physician-Assisted Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.
A Chosen Death
A Chosen Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Chosen Death write by Lonny Shavelson. This book was released on 1995. A Chosen Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring moving accounts of terminally ill people who have faced the choice of ending their own lives, this book adds a profound human dimension to the debate over assisted suicide
