1st Edition

The Right to Die V1 Definitions and Moral Perspectives: Death, Euthanasia, Suicide, and Living Wills, V2 Who Decides? Issues and Case Studies

Edited By Melvin I. Urofsky, Philip E. Urofsky Copyright 1996
1044 Pages
by Routledge

1044 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1996. The key issue in all right-to-die matters is “who decides?” Who will decide whether life support should be terminated? Who will decide if a person is competent to make life and death decisions? The law is quite clear that, in cases of conscious, competent adults, the individual is free to make all decisions relating to his or her care and future. This volume is a... Read more

VOLUME 1, PART 1: DEFINING DEATH , PART 2: EUTHANASIA, PART 3: SUICIDE, PART 4: ASSISTED SUICIDE, 5: LIVING WILLS, PART 6: SOME MORAL PERSPECTIVES, VOLUME 2 PART 1: WHO DECIDES? PART 2: CASE STUDIES PART 3: SPECIAL CASES: CHILDREN, PART 4: COURT CASES.

Biography

Melvin I. Urofsky and Philip E. Urofsky