The proliferation of life-prolonging technology in recent years has
made the controversy over the "right to die" and physician-assisted
suicide one of the most explosive medical and ethical issues of our
day. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine" has commanded
front-page coverage for several years, while in 1994 Oregon passed
a measure allowing the terminally ill to obtain lethal
prescriptions for suicide, and other states have placed similar
proposals on their ballots.
Arguing Euthanasia brings together for the first time an
impressive array of viewpoints from both sides of this emotionally
charged question as well as voices from the gravely ill and their
loved ones. Beginning with a selection of pieces from the New
England Journal of Medicine, where the debate was ignited in 1988,
Arguing Euthanasia features essays by such outspoken advocates of
active euthanasia as Timothy Quill and Sidney Hook, and important
social critics and commentators such as Nat Hentoff, Leon R. Kass,
and Ronald Dworkin.
As they probe the legal and ethical issues at the heart of
physician-assisted suicide, these essays offer invaluable insights
not only for those caring for the terminally ill but for anyone
concerned with the deeper philosophical conflict between enduring
life-oriented values and personal dignity that lies at the heart of
this controversy.
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