Table of Contents
Introduction 5
1 End-of-Life Care Should Be Minimal and Swift Ken Murray 10
2 End-of-Life Care Should Not Necessarily Be Minimal and Swift Cynthia Jones-Nosacek 16
3 Taking Responsibility for Death Susan Jacoby 21
4 Economics Should Not Influence End-of-Life Care Decisions Mike Stopa 27
5 The Government Should Ration End-of-Life Care M. Gregg Bloche 33
6 Terminally III People Do Not Have the Right to Die When and How They Want Fritz Spencer 40
7 Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide Will Lead to Abuse and Coerced Death Seán P. O'Malley 45
8 Legalized Physician-Assisted Suicide Has Many Safeguards to Prevent Abuse and Coerced Death Marcia Angell 52
9 Hospice Care Is Preferable to Assisted Suicide Linda Campanella 57
10 Hospice Care Is Not Preferable to Assisted Suicide John M. Crisp 62
11 It Is Never Moral to End the Lives of Children Andrew Brown 67
12 Technology May Allow Humans to Live Forever Ray Kurzweil, as told to Duncan Begg 72
Appendix
What You Should Know About Death and Dying 76
What You Should Do About Death and Dying 83
Organizations to Contact 87
Bibliography 94
Index 101
Picture Credits 104
