Terminal illness / Williams, Mary E.

Authors present conflicting opinions on how the physical and emotional pain of terminal illness should be addressed, whether physicians should be permitted to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients, and whether the terminally ill should be given more control over their deaths.

Presents various articles which discuss how care of the terminally ill can be improved, how their physical and emotional pain should be addressed, the morality of physicians aiding in the deaths of terminally ill patients, and the right of the terminally ill to die.