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The Amendment that Refused to Die

The Amendment that Refused to Die
by Howard Meyer
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Relying on both celebrated and little-known cases, this acclaimed chronicle of the Fourteenth Amendment—a constitutional guarantee of equality and freedom and the cornerstone of individual liberty as we know it—traces the amendment's fascinating origins in the aftermath of the Civil War; its near repudiation; violent reactions against it; its revival in the twentieth century; and, in a substantial new afterword, its recent challenges and setbacks. Meyer looks at current attacks against the amendment, which threaten affirmative action, desegregation, voting rights, abortion rights, gay rights, and protection from oppressive measures of the State.

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• Published on: 2000-11-01
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• 304 pages

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The Complete Living Will Kit (+ CD-ROM) (How to Write Your Own Living Will)

The Complete Living Will Kit (+ CD-ROM) (How to Write Your Own Living Will)
by Haman

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Control Your Critical Health Care Decisions

The Complete Living Will Kit is an easy-to-use guide to preparing your own living will without the expense of an attorney. A living will, along with a health care power of attorney, provides your family and doctors with instructions for your health care and ensures that your wishes are followed-even if you are unable to speak for yourself. Inside, learn how easy it is to prepare all the documents you may ever need. Simple instructions and samples walk you through filling out your own forms and giving your family the power to carry out your health care wishes.

Write the Best Living Will for You
With step-by-step instructions and sample filled-in forms, you can easily personalize the documents to express exactly what you want to happen if you ever become incapacitated.

Ensure Complete Coverage
Learn about other valuable health care documents, including health care powers of attorney and do not resuscitate orders, that guide your family and doctors in the case of an emergency.

Direct Your Doctors
Ensure that your doctors follow your specific wishes and make the health decisions you want-no matter the situation.

Prepare Your Specific Needs
State-by-state listings covering every state’s laws and specifically sanctioned forms make this book your one-stop guide for preparing the precise documentation you need.

Share Your Decisions
Learn the importance of notifying your family and friends of your decisions and providing your health care agents with all the necessary information-before it is too late.

Modify Forms for Your Needs
Find all the essential forms on the accompanying CD-ROM and modify each form to say exactly what you want.

Making your health care wishes known has never been easier.

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• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
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• 272 pages

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Have You Made Your Will: Will and Estate-Planning Kit: With Forms (Self-Counsel Legal Series)

Have You Made Your Will?: Will and Estate-Planning Kit: With Forms (Self-Counsel Legal Series)
by Self Counsel Press Inc.

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Make your own will and save legal fees! If you die without making a proper, valid will, your family and relatives may have to deal with various legal complications. To avoid this, it is essential to have your affairs and requests in order ahead of time.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2076924 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• 20 pages

Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands

Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands
by John Griffiths, Alex Bood, Heleen Weyers

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The Netherlands is the only country in the world in which euthanasia, under narrow-defined circumstances, is legally permissible. Considerable attention has been paid over a number of years to the problem of regulating it and information has been systematically collected concerning actual practice. Therefore the Dutch experience is of interest not only to the Dutch, but to anyone who is considering wether or not to make euthanasia a legal practice. This book is written for a reader without specific knowledge of law. The central focus of the book is on Dutch law pertaining to euthanansia, but it also considers the moral and legal principles that have played a role in the Dutch debate, the available evidence bearing on actual practice and on the effectiveness of legal control. It ends with some reflections on the problem of the 'slippery slope' and the question whether the Dutch experience is 'exportable'. It includes translations of the relevant legislation (including proposed reforms) and of three leading cases.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #402209 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-01
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .84" h x 6.68" w x 9.63" l, 1.39 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 382 pages

Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America

Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America
William H. Colby (Author)
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It often seems that medical technology is a never-ending string of miracles. But it is also a double-edged sword. More often than not, death today happens because of a decision to stop doing something, or to not do it at all. As the tragic life and death of Terri Schiavo so poignantly illustrated, universal definitions of life, death, nature, and many other concepts are elusive at best. Unplugged addresses the fundamental questions of the right-to-die debate, and discusses how the medical advances that bring so much hope and healing have also helped to create today's dilemma.Now in paperback, this compelling book illuminates the complex legal, ethical, medical, and deeply personal issues of a debate that ultimately affects us all. Compassionate and beautifully written, the book helps readers understand the implications of current laws and proposed legislation, various medical options (including hospice), and the typical end-of-life decisions we all must face in order to make informed decisions for ourselves and our loved ones. The hardcover edition was chosen by "The Library Journal" as one of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2006.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #177162 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-12-12
• Released on: 2005-12-31
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Original language: English
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Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die

Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
by Margaret Pabst Battin

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Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands, to a furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices that pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, suicide in old age, global justice and the "duty to die." It also examines suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia in both American and international contexts.

As with the earlier volume, these new essays are theoretically adroit but draw richly from historical sources, fictional techniques, and ample factual material.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1325584 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .80" h x 6.48" w x 9.14" l, 1.09 pounds
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• 352 pages

A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America

A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America
by Ian Dowbiggin
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While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century.
Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Euthanasia Society of America, interviews with important figures in the movement today, and flashpoint cases such as the tragic fate of Karen Ann Quinlan, Dowbiggin tells the dramatic story of the men and women who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attitude--and its laws--regarding mercy killing. In tracing the history of the euthanasia movement, he documents its intersection with other progressive social causes: women's suffrage, birth control, abortion rights, as well as its uneasy pre-WWII alliance with eugenics. Such links brought euthanasia activists into fierce conflict with Judeo-Christian institutions who worried that "the right to die" might become a "duty to die." Indeed, Dowbiggin argues that by joining a sometimes overzealous quest to maximize human freedom with a desire to "improve" society, the euthanasia movement has been dogged by the fear that mercy killing could be extended to persons with disabilities, handicapped newborns, unconscious geriatric patients, lifelong criminals, and even the poor. Justified or not, such fears have stalled the movement, as more and more Americans now prefer better end-of-life care than wholesale changes in euthanasia laws.
For anyone trying to decide whether euthanasia offers a humane alternative to prolonged suffering or violates the "sanctity of life," A Merciful End provides fascinating and much-needed historical context.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #975366 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• 272 pages

Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society

Taking Care: Ethical Caregiving in Our Aging Society
by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)
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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1634178 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-07
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• 331 pages

Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide

Regulating How We Die: The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide
by Linda L. Emanuel
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The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote, "Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. Our holding permits this debate to continue." Regulating How We Die is certain to be a landmark contribution to that debate. Dr. Linda Emanuel--one of America's most influential medical ethicists--has assembled leading experts to provide not only a clear account of the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia but also historical, empirical, and legal perspectives on this complicated issue. These contributors include Marcia Angell, George Annas, Susan Wolf, and many others.

The important questions are addressed here, including: What does mercy dictate? Does physician-assisted suicide honor or violate autonomy? Is it more dignified than natural death? Is this decision purely a private matter? Will legalizing physician-assisted suicide put us on a slippery slope toward involuntary euthanasia? And, in an analysis of data not available in any other book, what can we learn from Holland, the only country in which physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal?

Regulating How We Die will be essential reading for anyone who has been handed a terminal diagnosis, for people close to those facing such a diagnosis, for professionals, including physicians, nurses, pastors, lawyers, legislators--indeed, for anyone who has considered the moral and political debate over doctor-assisted suicide.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1366102 in Books
• Published on: 1998-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .82" h x 6.10" w x 9.22" l, .96 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 585 pages

A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life

A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
by Jeanne Fitzpatrick, Eileen M. Fitzpatrick, William Colby
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The fail-safe plan for ensuring one's final wishes are respected

Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guaran­tee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better Way of Dying offers a simple and effective framework for leaving caretakers concrete, unambiguous, and legally binding instructions about your wishes for your last days. Meant for people in every walk of life-from the elderly, to those in the early stages of mentally degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, to healthy young people planning for an unpredictable future-this book creates space for a discussion we all must have if we wish to ensure comfort and control at the end of our lives..

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #32113 in Books
• Published on: 2010-01-26
• Released on: 2010-01-26
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .60" h x 5.06" w x 7.80" l, .38 pounds
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• 222 pages

Mary's Choice

Mary's Choice
Robert Bruce Thurman (Author)

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Adult fiction: When Sister Mary receives a letter from a long-lost boyfriend she quits the Church and rekindles a forty-year-old love affair with Edward Brenner only to discover that age and faith have divided her love between God and her aging lover. Torn between God and Edward, “Mary’s Choice” reveals a curious yet gratifying resolution to Mary's conundrum that plays out on her deathbed.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #141774 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-03-31
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The Law of Life and Death

The Law of Life and Death
by Elizabeth Price Foley
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Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer—that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.

Foley reveals that “not being dead” is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People, pre-viable fetuses, and post-viable fetuses have different sets of legal rights, which explains the law's seemingly inconsistent approach to stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, in utero embryos, contraception, abortion, homicide, and wrongful death.

In a detailed analysis that is sure to be controversial, Foley shows how the need for more organ transplants and the need to conserve health care resources are exerting steady pressure to expand the legal definition of death. As a result, death is being declared faster than ever before. The "right to die," Foley worries, may be morphing slowly into an obligation to die.

Foley’s balanced, accessible chapters explore the most contentious legal issues of our time—including cryogenics, feticide, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, brain death, vegetative and minimally conscious states, informed consent, and advance directives—across constitutional, contract, tort, property, and criminal law. Ultimately, she suggests, the inconsistencies and ambiguities in U.S. laws governing life and death may be culturally, and perhaps even psychologically, necessary for an enormous and diverse country like ours.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #773213 in Books
• Published on: 2011-04-01
• Original language: English
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• 320 pages

Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates

Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates
by Robert P. Jones

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In Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality, Robert P. Jones presents a penetrating examination of physician-assisted suicide that exposes unresolved tensions deep within liberal political theory. Jones asks why egalitarian liberal philosophers--most notably, Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls--support legalized physician-assisted suicide in direct opposition to groups of disadvantaged citizens they theoretically champion. Jones argues that egalitarian liberals ought to oppose physician-assisted suicide--at least until we find the political will to ensure access to health care for all. More broadly, Jones challenges progressives to find the heart of the liberal tradition not in allegedly neutral appeals to "choice" but in a renewed commitment to equality and social justice that welcomes public religious voices as allies. "In this engrossing study of debates over physician-assisted suicide, Jones has issued a challenge to liberals. The old idea that liberalism is morally neutral and culturally unbiased will have to be discarded. But in doing so, liberals just may find allies among religious and other voices fighting for equality." --Amy Sullivan, The Washington Monthly "Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality is the most sophisticated analysis I have read that gives a social and philosophical context to the Oregon debate on assisted death. Jones's meaningful discussion of moral values in liberal political philosophy incorporates strong scholarship and an impressive use of interviews and ethnography." --Courtney S. Campbell, Oregon State University "A fresh, challenging, and timely approach to the political intersections of religion and progressive politics. Cutting through the headlines on the contentious physician assisted suicide issue, Jones's intellectually rigorous focus on equality and justice as the key to shaping an authentic liberal response will have great appeal across political and religious lines. His approach offers precisely the right prescription for a stronger progressive movement." --Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2543558 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-28
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The Right vs. the Right to Die: Lessons from the Terri Schiavo Case and How to Stop It from Happening Again

The Right vs. the Right to Die: Lessons from the Terri Schiavo Case and How to Stop It from Happening Again
by Jon Eisenberg
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The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. But there are many more battles to come. Jon Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, exposes the religious Right's strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect future legal maneuvers to combat the American traditions of autonomy and freedom.

Jon Eisenberg has experienced the family struggle of removing a feeding tube from a loved one and witnessed firsthand the Florida drama that will continue to have national legal and political consequences for years to come. What tactics can we expect to see in courtrooms and state legislatures all across this country in the days ahead? Who is behind the funding and what do they hope to accomplish and when? What are the religious and bioethical issues that are at the center of these debates and how will they affect future legal battles? Using Terri gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what happened -- and what's coming.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #481610 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-05
• Released on: 2006-09-05
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.42" w x 7.92" l, .50 pounds
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• 304 pages

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These two tone 3D earrings have shapes that move together and swing apart. Each "open" petal is hammered and finished by hand. This design is sure to become one of your favorites!
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These two tone 3D earrings have shapes that move together and swing apart. Each "open" petal is hammered and finished by hand. This design is sure to become one of your favorites!

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #4816 in Jewelry
• Brand: Marjorie Baer

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