Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage matters
of dignity and dying from a Christian perspective. The book begins
with essays by David Schiedermayer, Arlene Miller, and Gregory
Waybright that root the book in the experience of dying itself.
This is followed by contributions from Nigel Cameron, John Dunlop,
Marsha Fowler, and Allen Verhey on the topics that provide the
guiding vision for approaches to dignity and dying: autonomy,
death, suffering, and faithfulness. Four of the most pressing
end-of-life challenges-forgoing treatment, medical futility,
definition of death, and assisted suicide/euthanasia-are then
examined by John Kilner, Christopher Hook, Holly Vautier, and
Edmund Pellegrino. The next section, with contributions from Ben
Mitchell, Jerome Wernow, Arthur Dyck, and Henk Jochemsen, is
devoted to investigations of key settings where people have
wrestled with these challenges: Nazi Germany; Oregon; North
American legal systems; and the Netherlands. Finally, the book
concludes with discussions of five potentially constructive
alternatives to the premature ending of life: hospice care (by
Martha Twaddle); long-term care (by James Thobaben); wise advocacy
(by James Reitman); parish nursing (by Norma Small); and
congregational ministry (by Dennis Hollinger).
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