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(Ebook) Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Margaret Somerville ISBN 9780773543768, 9780773589155, 9780773589162, 0773543767, 0773589155, 0773589163

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Authors:Margaret Somerville
Pages:471 pages.
Year:2014
Editon:2nd
Publisher:McGill-Queen’s University Press
Language:english
File Size:19.09 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780773543768, 9780773589155, 9780773589162, 0773543767, 0773589155, 0773589163
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(Ebook) Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Margaret Somerville ISBN 9780773543768, 9780773589155, 9780773589162, 0773543767, 0773589155, 0773589163

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of euthanasia? What impact would the legalization of euthanasia have on concepts of human rights, human responsibilities, and human ethics? Can we imagine teaching young physicians how to put their patients to death? There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through "death talk." Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the "death talk" articulated in the euthanasia debate with "life talk," Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the unfolding euthanasia debate is captured through the inclusion of Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions.
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