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When, if ever, is life no longer worth living? When, if ever, is it
right to withdraw life-support or hasten death? These
questions-which confront physicians, bioethicists, social workers,
the children of aging parents, and sooner or later almost
everyone-now receive increasingly urgent attention in American
society. Peter Filene's In the Arms of Others is the first book to
set this dilemma into broad historical and cultural context. It is,
in other words, a history of the "right to die" as viewed in the
United States. With the narrative skills he has displayed in his
fiction, Mr. Filene takes the reader into the lives and feelings of
people who have struggled with the predicament of modern dying.
Beginning with the nineteenth-century background and the rise of
medical technology, he moves quickly to the landmark case of Karen
Ann Quinlan, who became in the 1970s the macabre protagonist of a
melodrama that crystallized the nation's consciousness and produced
a legal benchmark. Mr. Filene explores the maze of bioethical
arguments surrounding this and succeeding cases, and guides readers
through complex questions with remarkable lucidity. Ultimately, he
argues, we must acknowledge that traditional American
self-determination is not sufficient to resolve terrible questions
of life and death; what we need is an ethic of relatedness.
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