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Examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. The two volumes of "Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life" present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. Volume II, on justice and hastening death, examines whether there is a difference between killing and letting die, issues about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and questions about distributive justice and decisions about life and death.

Euthanasia --- Right to die --- Assisted suicide --- Terminal care --- Euthanasie --- Droit à la mort --- Aide au suicide --- Soins en phase terminale --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Aspect moral --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Death. --- Droit à la mort --- Death --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Advance health care directives --- Advance healthcare directives --- Advance medical directives --- Advanced directives (Medical care) --- Directives, Advance (Medical care) --- Healthcare directives, Advance --- Medical directives, Advance --- Medical care --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Patient advocacy --- Philosophy --- Euthanasia - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Assisted suicide - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Right to die - Moral and ethical aspects.