"Ball's arguments are concise, compelling, and backed with
considerable case law. This volume is highly recommended for
upper-level undergraduates and above in law, philosophy, and the
medical humanities interested in the 'right to die' debates.
Summing up: Highly recommended." -Choice Over the past hundred
years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due
largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a
consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of
the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while
longevity is celebrated as an achievement in modern civilization,
the longer people live, the more likely they are to succumb to
chronic, terminal illnesses. In 1900, the average life expectancy
was 47 years, with a majority of American deaths attributed to
influenza, tuberculosis, pneumonia, or other diseases. In 2000, the
average life expectancy was nearly 80 years, and for too many
people, these long lifespans included cancer, heart failure, Lou
Gehrig's disease, AIDS, or other fatal illnesses, and with them,
came debilitating pain and the loss of a once-full and often
independent lifestyle. In this compelling and provocative book,
noted legal scholar Howard Ball poses the pressing question: is it
appropriate, legally and ethically, for a competent individual to
have the liberty to decide how and when to die when faced with a
terminal illness? At Liberty to Die charts how, the right of a
competent, terminally ill person to die on his or her own terms
with the help of a doctor has come deeply embroiled in debates
about the relationship between religion, civil liberties, politics,
and law in American life. Exploring both the legal rulings and the
media frenzies that accompanied the Terry Schiavo case and others
like it, Howard Ball contends that despite raging battles in all
the states where right to die legislation has been proposed, the
opposition to the right to die is intractable in its stance.
Combining constitutional analysis, legal history, and current
events, Ball surveys the constitutional arguments that have driven
the right to die debate.
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