terminal care

Opposing viewpoints create a running debate on such issues as coping with death, suicide, euthanasia, and care for the dying.

Presents a selection of primary and secondary source materials that provide information about issues related to death and dying, featuring an overview of death through the ages, and discussing the right to die, euthanasia, the cost of health care, and other topics.

Provides an intimate view of her work with terminally ill patients as she brings them an acceptance of death.

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.

"When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider"--Provided by publisher.

Contains more than twenty articles by ethical, legal, religious, health care, and public policy scholars on the forgoing of life-sustaining food and water, and studies the case of Claire C. Conroy.

Examines the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide as performed in the Netherlands exploring the perspectives of doctors, the terminally ill, and their families and raises questions concerning the roles that morals and societal concerns should play.