Patient-Directed Dying A Call for Legalized Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill

Name: Patient-Directed Dying A Call for Legalized Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill
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ISBN: 9781583484616

ISBN-10: 1583484612

ISBN-13: 9781583484616

Edition: N/A

Authors: Thomas Preston

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Author Tom Preston, MD, and his terminally ill patients and their families often face the controversial predicament of how to die when suffering has been medically extended. Through their conversations, they demonstrate how dying is a process, how physicians alter when and how we die, and why natural death is a misnomer after medical interventions prolong the process. Their cases also explain why patientsnot physicians or othersshould be able to make their own decisions about when and how to die. Dr. Preston gives compelling reasons as to why aid-in-dying is not suicide when used by terminally ill patients, and why physicians who help them die are not assisting suicide. He shows us the…

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List price: $16.95
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English