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The Right to Die - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Right to Die - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Series: Contemporary World Issues
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This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of
the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements
in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only
living longer but taking much longer to die-often in great pain and
suffering. In 1900, the average age at which people died in America
was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were tuberculosis
and other respiratory illnesses. In the 21st century, as a result
of better health care and working conditions as well as advances in
medical technology, we live much longer-as of 2016, about 80 years.
A much larger proportion of Americans now die from chronic diseases
that generally appear at an advanced age, such as heart disease,
cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Should
this fundamental change in human lifespan alter how society and
government view right-to-die legislation? What are the pros and
cons of giving a mentally competent person who is terminally ill
and in great pain the right to end his or her life? The Right to
Die: A Reference Handbook provides a complete examination of
right-to-die issues in the United States that dissects the complex
arguments for and against a person's liberty to receive a
physician's assistance to hasten death. It covers the legal aspects
and the politics of the right-to-die controversy, analyzes the
battles over the right to die in state and federal courts, and
supplies primary source documents that illustrate the political,
medical, legal, religious, and ethical landscape of the right to
die. Additionally, the book examines how members of our society
typically die has changed in the past 150 years and how the
practice of medicine has evolved over that time; explains why the
right to die is strongly opposed by many religious groups as well
as members of the medical profession; considers the "slippery
slope" argument against doctor-assisted suicide; and identifies the
reasons that the disabled, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and
some members of ethnic, racial, and religious minority groups
typically fear physician-assisted death. Provides readers a clear
picture of the complexity of the right-to-die controversy as it has
emerged in the courts and in the political branches of state and
federal governments Presents perspectives written by advocates for
and against the right to die that give personal insight into the
reasons for their positions Supplies a selection of primary source
documents that represent viewpoints from both sides of the
right-to-die controversy Includes a fully annotated chapter that
provides readers with secondary resources such as books, journal
articles, and medical reports with which to explore the issue
further
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