Main description:

This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I: Suicide

Chapter 2. Determining the manner and time of your own death

Chapter 3. The invisibility of rational suicide

Chapter 4. Which actions should we count as suicides?

Chapter 5. What is implied by the right to suicide?

Part II: Palliative care and palliative sedation

Chapter 6. Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care

Chapter 7. Continuous deep sedation and homicide

Chapter 8. Sedation until death: indications

Part III: Euthanasia

Chapter 9. Euthanasia and the right to self-determination

Chapter 10. Ending lives with and without request

Chapter 11. The risks of legalization

Chapter 12. The Dutch and Belgian euthanasia laws: Potemkin villages?

Part IV: Hard cases

Chapter 13. Mental illness

Chapter 14. Death wishes of the elderly

Chapter 15. The authority of advance directives

Chapter 16. Designing a regulatory system