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
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• 352 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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• 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
• Binding: Paperback
• 222 pages

Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics

Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
by Eleanor Clift
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What has become known as the Schiavo affair-the death of a brain-damaged woman in Florida in 2005, and the controversy that surrounded it-was a revelatory moment in American society. For the first time, the nation got a clear view of both the fanaticism gripping the religious right and the political power it could bring to bear even when the vast majority of the country disagreed with it. But it was also a turning point: a moment when America seemed to glimpse a dangerous radicalism, and began to pull back. Eleanor Clift witnessed this event from a unique vantage point. At the same time that Schiavo was dying in her Florida hospice, Clift’s husband, Tom Brazaitis, was dying of cancer at home; the two passed away within a day of each other. Two Weeks of Life alternates between these two stories to provide a moving commentary on how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying in modern America.

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• Published on: 2008-03-11
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss

Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss
by Barbara K. Roberts, Ann Jackson
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• Amazon Sales Rank: #63312 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-25
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• 132 pages