Euthanasia, Death with Dignity and the Law : Death with Dignity and the Law.

Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Introduction: Medicine Men, Outlaws and Voluntary Euthanasia -- 1. To Kill or Not to Kill -- is that the Euthanasia Question? -- INTRODUCTION-WHY EUTHANASIA? -- DEAD OR ALIVE? -- EUTHANASIA AS HOMICIDE -- EUTHANASIA AS DEATH WITH DIGNITY -- 2. Euthanasia and Clinically Assisted Death: From Caring to Killing? -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INDEFINITE CONTINUATION OF PALLIATIVE TREATMENT -- WITHHOLDING OR WITHDRAWING TREATMENT -- THE PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT -- PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE -- MERCY KILLING -- CONCLUSIONS -- 3. Consent to Treatment but Not to Death -- INTRODUCTION-WHY CONSENT? -- WITHOUT CONSENT -- KILLING AND CONSENT -- VALID CONSENT, FREELY GIVEN? -- OLD ENOUGH TO CONSENT -- DECIDING FOR OTHERS -- CONCLUSIONS-A CONSENT TOO FAR? -- 4. Autonomy, Self-Determination and Self-Destruction -- INTRODUCTION-AUTONOMOUS CHOICES -- CHOOSING TO DIE-SUICIDE AND AUTONOMY -- SUICIDAL INTENTIONS -- AUTONOMOUS CLINICAL DISCRETION -- DECIDING TO LIVE OR DIE-WHOSE DECISION? -- 5. Living Wills and the Will to Die -- INTRODUCTION -- I KNOW MY WILL -- THIS IS MY WILL -- I WILL DECIDE -- WILL MY WILL BE DONE? -- WHERE THERE'S A WILL -- CONCLUSIONS -- 6. Is Euthanasia a Dignified Death? -- INTRODUCTION-WHY DIGNITY? -- NEEDING DIGNITY -- FINDING DIGNITY -- ACHIEVING DIGNITY IN DYING -- DIGNIFYING DEATH -- 7. Conclusions -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines legal responses to euthanasia and whether legal reform is an appropriate response to calls for it to be more readily available.

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