Death Rites
Subtitle: Law and Ethics at the End of Life
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 5, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780415140263
First sentence: The quest for a definition of death, adequate to those patients whose condition is 'masked' by the technology if intensive-therapy units, has become the quest for the ultimate seat of human life: for the physiological and anatomical core of human life, whose loss constitutes the death of the human being as a whole.