Product Description: Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions. In this timely book L.W. Sumner addresses these issues within the wider context of palliative care for patients in the dying process...read more

Accessible yet sophisticated book that explains the delicate issue of assisted suicide and asks readers to think about whether this difficult decision is ever right, wrong, or if it varies from case to case.

Product Description: The question of whether euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legalized is often treated, by judges and commentators, as a universal, ethical question, transcending national boundaries and diverse legal systems. By thinking of the issue in this way, the important context in which individual jurisdictions make decisions about assisted dying and the significance of the legal methods chosen to carry out those decisions is often lost...read more

Provides an overview of the topic, a chronology of important events, an annotated bibliography, and other resources for conducting further research.

Provides an overview of the topic, a chronology of important events, an annotated bibliography, and other resources for conducting further research. (view table of contents)

Argues for legalization since medical advances will keep more people unwillingly alive, at the cost of their autonomy, since doctors are best suited to ease the process, and since such suicides already occur (view table of contents)

Product Description: Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia brings to the foreground of the controversy over euthanasia and assisted suicide not only the moral and legal issues, but also regulatory and empirical issues, issues of prudent public policy, and choice of drugs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)