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Assisted Death - A Study in Ethics and Law (Paperback)
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Assisted Death - A Study in Ethics and Law (Paperback)
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Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and
euthanasia are very much on the public agenda in many
jurisdictions. In this timely book L.W. Sumner addresses these
issues within the wider context of palliative care for patients in
the dying process. His ethical conclusion is that a bright line
between assisted death and other widely accepted end-of-life
practices, including the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment,
pain control through high-dose opioids, and terminal sedation,
cannot be justified. In the course of the ethical argument many
familiar themes are given careful and thorough treatment:
conceptions of death, the badness of death, the wrongness of
killing, informed consent and refusal, the ethics of suicide, cause
of death, the double effect, the sanctity of life, the
'active/passive' distinction, advance directives, and nonvoluntary
euthanasia. The legal discussion opens with a survey of some
prominent prohibitionist and regulatory regimes and then outlines a
model regulatory policy for assisted death. Sumner concludes by
defending this policy against a wide range of common objections,
including those which appeal to slippery slopes or the possibility
of abuse, and by asking how the transition to a regulatory regime
might be managed in three common law prohibitionist jurisdictions.
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