Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die.

• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

Battin, Margaret Pabst. Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

This book is a sequel to Batting 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen some development of end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, to the dispute over federal versus state control over use of controlled substances to cause death under Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law, and the development of new methods of suicide assistance. Batting new book covers a range...