Dying Right: The Death with Dignity Movement

✍ Scribed by Daniel Hillyard

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral, and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
A Fate Worse than DeathChallenging the Legal Treatment of Dying......Page 18
Death with DignityThe Early States, 1991 1992......Page 48
Passage of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act......Page 86
A Movement to Repeal the Oregon Death With Dignity Act......Page 116
Compassion in DyingThe Assisted Suicide Test Cases......Page 136
Building the Safe HarborThe Implementation of the ODDA......Page 180
Death with Dignity in Other States and Other Countries......Page 228
The Good Death Changing Moral Boundaries......Page 252
References......Page 278
Index......Page 312