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| ISBN: | 9780511464850
0511464851
9780511462535
0511462530
9781139167437
113916743X
9780521880244
0521880246
9780521706162
0521706165
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-242) and indexes.
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| Summary: | Does a competent person suffering from a terminal illness or enduring an otherwise burdensome existence, who considers his life no longer of value but is incapable of ending it, have a right to be helped to die? Should someone for whom further medical treatment would be futile be allowed to die regardless of expressing a preference to be given all possible treatment? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this wide-ranging discussion of both the morality of medically assisted death and the justifiability of making certain instances legal. A case is offered in support of the moral and legal permissibility of specified instances of medically assisted death, along with responses to the main objections that have been levelled against it. The philosophical argument is bolstered by empirical evidence from The Netherlands and Oregon where voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are already legal."--Jacket
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| Other form: | Print version: Young, Robert, Ph. D. Medically assisted death. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521880244
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