This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.
This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.
Govert den Hartogh is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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