Death and dying
By: Lauri S. Scherer, Book Editor
Series: Issues that concern you; Issues that concern you
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780737769371
Subjects: Death; Mortality; Terminal care
Description: Provides an examination of the right to die and the legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted suicide practices in the United States, offering a variety of perspectives on hospice care, the role of economics, and healthcare rationing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-100) and index.
Table of contents: title: End-of-life care should be minimal and swift / Ken Murray; title: End-of-life care should not necessarily be minimal and swift / Cynthia Jones-Nosacek; title: Economics should influence end-of-life care decisions / Susan Jacoby; title: Economics should not influence end-of-life care decisions / Mike Stopa; title: The government should ration end-of-life care / M. Gregg Bloche; title: The government should not ration end-of-life care / Ken Connor; title: Terminally ill people have the right to die when and how they want / Samuel Smith; title: Terminally ill people do not have the right to die when and how they want / Fritz Spencer; title: Legalizing physician-assisted suicide will lead to abuse and coerced death / Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley; title: Legalized physician-assisted suicide has many safeguards to prevent abuse and coerced death / Marcia Angell; title: Hospice care is preferable to assisted suicide / Linda Campanella; title: Hospice care is not preferable to assisted suicide / John Crisp; title: It can be moral to end the lives of children / Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva; title: It is never moral to end the lives of children / Andrew Brown; title: Technology may allow humans to live forever / Ray Kurzweil interviewed by Duncan Begg.