An edition of Death and dying
(2014)
Death and dying
by Lauri S. Scherer
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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.
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Death, Mortality, Terminal care, Social problems, Death, juvenile literatureShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Death and dying
2014, Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
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0737769378 9780737769371
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Table of Contents
End-of-life care should be minimal and swift / Ken Murray
End-of-life care should not necessarily be minimal and swift / Cynthia Jones-Nosacek
Economics should influence end-of-life care decisions / Susan Jacoby
Economics should not influence end-of-life care decisions / Mike Stopa
The government should ration end-of-life care / M. Gregg Bloche
The government should not ration end-of-life care / Ken Connor
Terminally ill people have the right to die when and how they want / Samuel Smith
Terminally ill people do not have the right to die when and how they want / Fritz Spencer
Legalizing physician-assisted suicide will lead to abuse and coerced death / Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley
Legalized physician-assisted suicide has many safeguards to prevent abuse and coerced death / Marcia Angell
Hospice care is preferable to assisted suicide / Linda Campanella
Hospice care is not preferable to assisted suicide / John Crisp
It can be moral to end the lives of children / Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva
It is never moral to end the lives of children / Andrew Brown
Technology may allow humans to live forever / Ray Kurzweil interviewed by Duncan Begg.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-100) and index.
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