Ethics at the End of Life New Issues and Arguments [Hardcover]

The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously. At the same time, a reader can use this volume to become oriented to the established questions and positions in end of life ethics, both because new questions are set in their context, and because most of the chapterswritten by a team of expertssurvey the field as well as add to it. Each chapter includes initial summaries, final conclusions, and a Related Topics section.

John K. Davis, Introduction

Geoffrey Scarre, Is it possible to be better off dead?

Taylor W. Cyr, How Does Death Harm the Deceased?

Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, The Significance of an Afterlife

Jens Johansson, The Severity of Death

John K. Davis, Defining Death

James Stacey Taylor, Autonomy, Competence, and End of Life

Eric Vogelstein, Deciding for the Incompetent

Paul T. Menzel, Change of Mind: An Issue for Advance Directives

Nancy S. Jecker, Medical Futility and Respect for Patient Autonomy

Paul T. Menzel, Refusing Lifesaving Medical Treatment and Food and Water by Mouth

Thomas S. Huddle, Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doing-Allowing Distinction and Double Effect

Michael Cholbi, Grief and End of Life Surrogate Decision-making

Bruce Jennings, Solidarity near the End of Life: The Promise of Relational Decision-making in the Care of the Dying

Colin Farrelly, Justice and the Aging of the Human Species

This collection features quality work by influential philosophers on matters of great importance, and scholars interested in life and death issues will l#