The Case against Assisted Suicide

Kathleen Foley, M.D., is professor of neurology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and director of the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation.Herbert Hendin, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College and medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective
Part I: Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide
Chapter 1. "I Will Give No Deadly Drug": Why Doctors Must Not Kill
Chapter 2. Compassion Is Not Enough
Chapter 3. Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Chapter 4. The Rise and Fall of the "Right" to Assisted Suicide
Part II: Practice Versus Theory
Chapter 5. The Dutch Experience
Chapter 6. Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician
Chapter 7. The Oregon Experiment
Chapter 8. Oregon's Culture of Silence
Chapter 9. Deadly Days in Darwin
Part III: Reason To Be Concerned
Chapter 10. Not Dead Yet
Chapter 11. Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide
Chapter 12. Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally Ill Patients
Part IV: A Better Way
Chapter 13. A Hospice Perspective
Chapter 14. Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide
Conclusion: Changing the Culture
Notes
Index