Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-217) and index.
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Should assisted suicide be legalized? Overview : assisted suicide should be a legal right / Carl Wellman -- Medically hastened deaths already occur and should be legal / Richard Ikeda -- Individuals have a legal right to choose death / Thomas A. Bowden -- Assisted suicide is a pressing social need and should be legalized / Uwe-Christian Arnold, interviewed by Julie Gregson -- Legalizing assisted suicide would put people without health insurance at risk / Robert P. Jones, interviewed by David Masci -- Legalizing assisted suicide would devalue the lives of the disabled and severely ill / Teresa Favuzzi -- Legalizing assisted suicide would undermine patients' trust in physicians / American Geriatrics Society -- Legalized assisted suicide reflects a biased view of the disabled / Samuel R. Bagenstos -- Is assisted suicide moral? Religious objections to assisted suicide contradict the premise of free will / Alvaro Vargas Llosa -- Religious and spiritual principles lead to support of assisted suicide / Kenneth W. Phifer -- Just reorganization of world health-care resources could lead to a duty to die / Margaret Pabst Battin -- Assisted suicide violates Christian beliefs about human life / Albert Mohler -- Wish to die is based on social as well as medical issues / Adrienne Asch -- Legalized physician-assisted suicide empowers doctors, not patients / Sheldon Richman -- Would assisted suicide be a slippery slope? Assisted suicide will not remain restricted to the terminally ill / Wesley J. Smith -- Legalized assisted suicide may lead to legalized euthanasia / Susan W. Enouen -- Use of euphemisms attempts to ease acceptance of assisted suicide / Rita L. Marker and Wesley J. Smith -- Research that found no slippery slope effect was invalid / Meg Jalsevac -- Legalized assisted suicide does not lead to increased suicide among the disadvantaged / University of Utah -- Legalizing assisted suicide prevents harm to the vulnerable / Peter Singer.
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