Euthanasia Is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician's View.

Cundiff, David. Euthanasia Is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician's View. Totowa, N.J.: Humana Press, 1992.

Can euthanasia be accepted as a reasonable choice? Or must a patient's pain and suffering be prolonged in order to preserve life, without regard to the quality of that life? Are there viable alternatives? Can a patient in fact live out his or her days in relative comfort, with love and support from family, friends, and health care workers?

This book shows how terminally ill patients, especially those with cancer or AIDS, can live in comfort and dignity until death. The proper use of modern pain medications can ease the pain that drives them to despair and the request for euthanasia. And dedicated...