Aging, Death, and the Quest for Immortality.

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Mitchell, C. Ben, Robert D. Orr & Susan A. Salladay, eds. Aging, Death, and the Quest for Immortality. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004.

In this volume physicians, health-care professionals, pastors, and ethicists explore the experiences, dilemmas, and possibilities associated with aging. It offers three distinct perspectives on aging: a personal perspective, a theologian's perspective, and a geriatrician's perspective. Several contributors analyze controversial ethical issues raised by aging and health-care, including medical decisionmaking, the moral standing of patients with dementia, health-care rationing, and assisted suicide. A third group of essays applies a theology of care to ministry to and through older adults, the counseling of seniors, and the...