The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

The author attempts a balanced approach to the fight to die debate, viewing the dispute from public policy and international perspectives. He offers an interdisciplinary approach, including medicine, law, religion, and ethics. With a comprehensive look at the troubling question of whether physician-assisted suicide should be allowed, he delineates a distinction between active and passive euthanasia and discusses legal measures that have been invoked in the United States and abroad. He outlines reasons non-blood relatives should be given a role in deciding a patient's last wishes. As he examines euthanasia policies in the Netherlands and the 1994 Oregon Death with Dignity Act, the author suggests...