ABSTRACT
The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. Volume II, on justice and hastening death, examines whether there is a difference between killing and letting die, issues about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and questions about distributive justice and decisions about life and death.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part
Death, Dying and the Ending of Life
part I|120 pages
Death
part |41 pages
The Nature of Death
part |76 pages
Brain Death and the Uses of the Dead
part II|325 pages
Decision-Making at the End of Life
part |38 pages
Competent Patients
part |42 pages
Advance Directives
part |133 pages
Incompetent Patients
part |75 pages
Children
part |33 pages
Futility
part
Death, Dying and the Ending of Life
part III
Hastening Death
part
Killing vs Letting Die
part
Physician - Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
part IV
Distributive Justice and Decisions about Life and Death
part
Justice, Health, and Death
part
Age Rationing
part
Is There a Duty to Die?