The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective
Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide
	Chapter 1 - “I Will Give No Deadly Drug”: Why Doctors Must Not Kill
	Chapter 2 - Compassion Is Not Enough
	Chapter 3 - Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
	Chapter 4 - The Rise and Fall of the “Right” to Assisted Suicide
Practice versus Theory
	Chapter 5 - The Dutch Experience
	Chapter 6 - Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician
	Chapter 7 - The Oregon Experiment
	Chapter 8 - Oregon’s Culture of Silence
	Chapter 9 - Deadly Days in Darwin
Reason to Be Concerned
	Chapter 10 - Not Dead Yet
	Chapter 11 -  Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide
	Chapter 12 - Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally Ill Patients
A Better Way
	Chapter 13 - A Hospice Perspective
	Chapter 14 - Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide
Conclusion: Changing the Culture
Notes
Index