<p>Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten l
Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
β Scribed by Margaret A Somerville
- Publisher
- McGill-Queenβs University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 451
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine.
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