Right To Die category: 18 books
by Howard Ball
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
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...
When Is It Right to Die?
A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For...
The Right to Die
The courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
"Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for the right to a physician-assisted death before she became fully paralyzed. At the time, assisted suicide could...
The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans
Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003
Personal rights, such as the right to procreate-or not-and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right...
A Merciful End
The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one...
by Julian Nida-Rümelin
Language: German
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Unser Gefühl frei zu sein wird als eine Illusion bezeichnet. Julian Nida-Rümelin entwickelt in seinem Buch Gedanken zur menschlichen Freiheit und Verantwortung, die unserer lebensweltlichen Praxis entsprechen und mit wissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnissen vereinbar sind.
Life's Dominion
An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of...
Impairment and Disability
Law and Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
This book explores legislation intended to protect the interests of people with disabilities or impairments. Considering a broad range of ethical and legal concerns which arise in issues of life, death and disability, it covers the social and legal responses to the equality rights of disabled people,...
Assisted Dying
Who Makes the Final Decision
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The latest developments in the arguments for and against assisted dying, with a foreword by Terry Pratchett
Assisted dying is perhaps one of the most divisive issues of the modern age, generating endless headlines and moral debates. Published in conjunction with the organization Dignity in...
Double Dipping
It Made Cents
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
You know that feeling. That feeling you’ve been caught. Caught doing something maybe you shouldn’t have been doing. Well the other day Friendo receives a letter from Social Assistance letting him know just that. He’s been caught double dipping; double dipping into Social Assistance and Employment Insurance at the same time.
"Memoir - Suicide"
by Penny Nova
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
This ebook contains the Advance Directives for the state of New York, specifically a Living Will template and Health Care proxy form, aka Power of Attorney. These legal documents and guideline come courtesy of the New York State Bar. To modify & save these forms in MS Word format, go to http://www.paperwell.com/contracts/advance-directive.
by Penny Nova
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
This ebook contains the Advance Healthcare Directives in the state of Florida, specifically a Living Will template, Healthcare Surrogate form, Mental Health Advance Directive & FAQ. The Living Will, Healthcare Surrogate form and FAQ are offered courtesy of the Florida Bar and Florida Medical Associations....
by Penny Nova
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
This ebook contains the Advance Healthcare Directives in the state of California, specifically a Living Will template, Medical Power of Attorney form, and guideline. This information is courtesy of the Office of the Attorney General for the State of California Department of Justice as of 7/8/2012....
Intention and Causation in Medical Non-Killing
The Impact of Criminal Law Concepts on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on grading...
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