euthanasia

Fie, a sixteen-year-old chieftain from a lowly cast of mercy-killers, must rely on her wits and bone magic to smuggle the crown prince of Sabor to safety.

Presents a collection of twelve controversial essays that debate the issue of a person's right to die, and addresses such topics as physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and more.

Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.

After the Nazi party takes control of Germany, thirteen-year-old Paula, who is deaf, is forced to go into hiding because of Adolf Hitler's Tiegartenstrasse 4--T4--which was put in place to kill any mentally ill or disabled people.

Ellen Gulden begins to resent her father after he asks her to come home and care for her dying mother, and, as Ellen and her mother reconnect, Ellen becomes even more estranged from her father and her former life, until a devastating event causes Ellen to re-examine everything she has ever known.

"[Examines] the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer, but taking much longer to die-often in great pain and suffering"--Provided by publisher.

"This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures"--Provided by publisher.

Tells a story from the perspective of fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who is stricken with cerebral palsy and physically disabled; and transmits his feelings when he cannot communicate to a father who feels he must put an end to Shawn's suffering.

Alternates between two stories--comtemporarily, 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.

Explores important questions about euthanasia.