ID - 475428 TI - Medically assisted death PY - 2007 SN - 9780521706162 9780521880244 0521880246 0521706165 9781139167437 1107184282 9786611982294 0511464118 0511464851 051146178X 113916743X 1281982296 0511462530 0511463324 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Status of persons KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - Medical law KW - Human rights KW - Sociology of health KW - Criminal law. Criminal procedure KW - Assisted suicide KW - Euthanasia KW - Law and legislation. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Assisted death (Assisted suicide) KW - Assisted dying (Assisted suicide) KW - Death, Assisted (Assisted suicide) KW - Doctor-assisted suicide KW - Dying, Assisted (Assisted suicide) KW - Patient-directed death KW - Patient-directed dying KW - Physician-assisted suicide KW - Suicide KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Assisted death (Euthanasia) KW - Assisted dying (Euthanasia) KW - Death, Assisted (Euthanasia) KW - Death, Mercy KW - Dying, Assisted (Euthanasia) KW - Killing, Mercy KW - Mercy death KW - Mercy killing KW - Homicide KW - Medical ethics KW - Right to die KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:475428 AB - Does a competent person suffering from a terminal illness or enduring an otherwise burdensome existence, who considers his life no longer of value but is incapable of ending it, have a right to be helped to die? Should someone for whom further medical treatment would be futile be allowed to die regardless of expressing a preference to be given all possible treatment? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this wide-ranging discussion of both the morality of medically assisted death and the justifiability of making certain instances legal. A case is offered in support of the moral and legal permissibility of specified instances of medically assisted death, along with responses to the main objections that have been levelled against it. The philosophical argument is bolstered by empirical evidence from The Netherlands and Oregon where voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are already legal. ER -