assisted suicide

Contains nineteen essays that examine issues related to euthanasia, looking at euthanasia and suicide in ancient and modern times, examining related legal battles, and providing opposing viewpoints on the ethics of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Examines the debate over physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in the U.S., looking at various arguments for and against the practice; and includes a chronology, a list of key people in the history of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, a glossary, a guide to further research, and a selection of resource information.

Alternates between two stories--contemporarily, seventeen-year-old Jacob visits a daunting Amsterdam at the request of his English grandmother--and historically, nineteen-year-old Geertrui relates her experience of British soldiers's attempts to liberate Holland from its German occupation.