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The Good Death Through Time (Paperback)
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The Good Death Through Time (Paperback)
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'I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways, but it is
difficult for me to understand this one.' An Australian Senate
committee investigation of the Northern Territory's Rights of the
Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legislation in the world that
allowed doctors to actively assist patients to die, found that for
the vast majority of Indigenous Territorians, the idea that a
physician - or anyone else - should help end a dying, suffering
person's life was so foreign that in some instances it proved
almost impossible to translate. The Good Death Through Time asks
how such a death became a 'thinkable'-even desirable-way to die for
so many others in Western cultures. For centuries a good death -
the 'euthanasia' - meant a death blessed by God that might well
involve pain, for suffering was seen as ultimately redemptive. But
in the Victorian age, when doctors started to treat the dying with
painkillers as well as prayers, a painful death came to be thought
of as an aberrant, dehumanising experience. As this book explores,
the modern idea that a good death should be painless spurred
sometimes troubling developments in palliative medicine as well as
an increasingly well-organised assisted dying movement. Delving
into what euthanasia activists, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders
and lay people have thought and felt about dying, The Good Death
Through Time shows that understanding the radical historical shift
in Western attitudes to managing dying and suffering helps us
better grasp the stakes in today's contestations over what it means
to die well.
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