Govert Den Hartogh

What Kind of Death (eBook, PDF)

The Ethics of Determining One's Own Death

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000684933
• Artikelnr.: 65968935

Autorenporträt

Govert den Hartogh is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Suicide
Chapter 2. Determining the manner and time of your own death
Chapter 3. The invisibility of rational suicide
Chapter 4. Which actions should we count as suicides?
Chapter 5. What is implied by the right to suicide?
Part II: Palliative care and palliative sedation
Chapter 6. Suffering and dying well: on the proper aim of palliative care
Chapter 7. Continuous deep sedation and homicide
Chapter 8. Sedation until death: indications
Part III: Euthanasia
Chapter 9. Euthanasia and the right to self-determination
Chapter 10. Ending lives with and without request
Chapter 11. The risks of legalization
Chapter 12. The Dutch and Belgian euthanasia laws: Potemkin villages?
Part IV: Hard cases
Chapter 13. Mental illness
Chapter 14. Death wishes of the elderly
Chapter 15. The authority of advance directives
Chapter 16. Designing a regulatory system