Death and Decision

Foreword -- Introduction -- Definitions of Death: Where to Draw the Lines and Why -- What Is the Function of Medicine?1 -- Psychosocial Factors in Coping with Dying -- Strategic Relationships in Dying -- The Right to Die Garrulously -- Euthanasia -- The Right to Die and the Obligation to Care: Allowing to Die, Killing for Mercy, and Suicide -- Demands for Life and Requests for Death: The Judicial Dilemma