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Death Talk : The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Margaret A. Somerville is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 t

Who reads Death Talk : The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide?

Author

Margaret A. Somerville

Publisher

ACP - McGill Queen's University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780773522015

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Philosophy, Medicine