1st Edition
What Kind of Death The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Suicide
Chapter 2. Determining the manner and time of your own death
Chapter 3. The invisibility of rational suicide
Chapter 4. Which actions should we count as suicides?
Chapter 5. What is implied by the right to suicide?
Part II: Palliative care and palliative sedation
Chapter 6. Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care
Chapter 7. Continuous deep sedation and homicide
Chapter 8. Sedation until death: indications
Part III: Euthanasia
Chapter 9. Euthanasia and the right to self-determination
Chapter 10. Ending lives with and without request
Chapter 11. The risks of legalization
Chapter 12. The Dutch and Belgian euthanasia laws: Potemkin villages?
Part IV: Hard cases
Chapter 13. Mental illness
Chapter 14. Death wishes of the elderly
Chapter 15. The authority of advance directives
Chapter 16. Designing a regulatory system
Biography
Govert den Hartogh is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"I particularly appreciate four qualities in work on bioethics: clear, effective communication; careful, well-organized argumentation, thorough, comprehensive research; and responsiveness to empirical evidence. den Hartogh delivers on all four…"
Wayne Sumner, Filosofie & Praktijk
"One of this book’s strengths is its ability to evaluate technical and complex areas. It offers a valuable resource for exploring end-of-life choices from a personal and moral standpoint. It also provides an insightful examination of what constitutes a ‘good death’ and how to facilitate it. It will appeal to anyone researching bioethics, applied ethics, law, or simply curious about death, particularly assisted death."
Medical Law Review
"Govert den Hartogh is a highly respected emeritus professor of moral philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. With this magnum opus—with highly detailed discussions—he delivers an extremely well documented presentation of his own and personal view how the manner and time of one’s own death can be determined."
Paul Schotsmans, European Journal of Health Law
