TY - BOOK ID - 77888352 TI - At Liberty to Die PY - 2012 SN - 0814769756 9780814769751 9780814745274 081474527X 9780814791042 0814791042 1612347355 9781612347356 1479869570 9781479869572 1612347185 9781612347189 1612347304 9781612347301 9781612347363 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Euthanasia KW - Assisted suicide KW - Right to die 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 - Law and legislation KW - Forensic sciences KW - Disappeared persons KW - Dead KW - Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 KW - Genocide KW - Identification. KW - Bosnia and Hercegovina KW - History KW - Cleansing, Ethnic KW - Ethnic cleansing KW - Ethnic purification KW - Ethnocide KW - Purification, Ethnic KW - Crime KW - War in former Yugoslavia, 1991-1995 KW - Yugoslav Conflict, 1991-1995 KW - Yugoslav Wars of Secession, 1991-1995 KW - Yugoslav War Crime Trials, Hague, Netherlands, 1994 KW - -Identification of the dead KW - Desaparecidos KW - Missing persons KW - Victims of state-sponsored terrorism KW - Criminalistics KW - Forensic science KW - Science KW - Criminal investigation KW - Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina KW - Bosna i Hercegovina KW - SRBiH KW - S.R.B. i H. KW - Bosnīi︠a︡-Gert︠s︡egovina KW - Bosnien und die Hercegovina KW - NR BiH KW - Bosna ve Hersek KW - Bosnia-Herzegovina KW - Bosnien-Herzegowina KW - Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina KW - Republika Bosna i Hercegovina KW - Republika Bosne i Hercegovine KW - Būsnah wa-al-Hirsik KW - Būsnah wa-al-Harsak KW - Босна и Херцеговина KW - Bosnia KW - Narodna Republika Bosna i Hercegovina KW - People's Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina KW - Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina KW - Bosnië-Herzegowina KW - بوسنة والهرسك KW - Bosnia y Herzegovina KW - Bosna shi Hertsegovina KW - Bosnie-Hèrzègovena KW - Vonia ha Hesegovina KW - Bosniya vä Herseqovina KW - Bosna kap Hercegovina KW - Боснія і Герцагавіна KW - Bosnii︠a︡ i Hertsahavina KW - Bosnya asin Hersegobina KW - Bosnya asin Hersegovina KW - Bosnia & Herzegovina KW - Bosnien und Herzegowina KW - Bosnia-ha-Herzegovina KW - Bosna i Khert︠s︡egovina KW - Bòsnia i Hercegovina KW - Bosnia ug Herzegovina KW - Bosna a Hercegovina KW - Republika Bosna a Hercegovina KW - Bosnia na Herzegovina KW - Bosnia è Erzegovina KW - Bosnia a Hercegovina KW - Bosna a Hertsegofina KW - Bosnia-Hercegovina KW - Bosna i Herzegovina KW - Bosnien-Hercegovina KW - Bosna dóó Hetsog Bikéyah KW - Bosniska-Hercegowinska KW - Bosnia ja Hertsegoviina KW - Βοσνία και Ερζεγοβίνη KW - Vosnia kai Erzegovinē KW - Bosnio kaj Hercegovino KW - Bosnujo kaj Hercegovino KW - Bósnia Ercegovina KW - Bosnie-Herzégovine KW - Bosnie-et-Herzégovine KW - République de Bosnie-Herzégovine KW - Bosnje KW - Bhoisnia-Heirseagaivéin KW - Poblacht na Boisnia-Heirseagaivéine KW - Bosnia as Herzegovina KW - Bosniya hem Herțegovina KW - Bosna agus Heartsagobhana KW - Bosnia e Hercegovina KW - Pô-sṳ-nì-â lâu Het-set-kô-vì-ná KW - Босмудин болн Херцегудин Орн KW - Bosmudin boln Khert︠s︡egudin Orn KW - Bosenia me Hesegowina KW - Bosniska a Hercegowina KW - Bosnia e Herzegovina KW - Bosnia dan Herzegovina KW - Republik Bosnia dan Herzegovina KW - Босни æмæ Герцеговинæ KW - Bosni æmæ Gert︠s︡egovinæ KW - Bosnía og Hersegóvína KW - Bosnía-Hersegóvína KW - Bosnia-Erzegovina KW - Bosnia ed Erzegovina KW - בוסניה והרצגובינה KW - Bosniyah ṿe-Hertsegovinah KW - Bosna KW - BiH UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888352 AB - Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while longevity is celebrated as an achievement in modern civilization, the longer people live, the more likely they are to succumb to chronic, terminal illnesses. In 1900, the average life expectancy was 47 years, with a majority of American deaths attributed to influenza, tuberculosis, pneumonia, or other diseases. In 2000, the average life expectancy was nearly 80 years, and for too many people, these long lifespans included cancer, heart failure, Lou Gehrig’s disease, AIDS, or other fatal illnesses, and with them, came debilitating pain and the loss of a once-full and often independent lifestyle. In this compelling and provocative book, noted legal scholar Howard Ball poses the pressing question: is it appropriate, legally and ethically, for a competent individual to have the liberty to decide how and when to die when faced with a terminal illness?At Liberty to Die charts how, the right of a competent, terminally ill person to die on his or her own terms with the help of a doctor has come deeply embroiled in debates about the relationship between religion, civil liberties, politics, and law in American life. Exploring both the legal rulings and the media frenzies that accompanied the Terry Schiavo case and others like it, Howard Ball contends that despite raging battles in all the states where right to die legislation has been proposed, the opposition to the right to die is intractable in its stance. Combining constitutional analysis, legal history, and current events, Ball surveys the constitutional arguments that have driven the right to die debate. ER -