"Political, economic, social, cultural, and technological changes have led to profound transformation in the ways that death and loss are perceived and managed in contemporary society. Over the last few decades, the long-term shift to chronic illness as a major causal factor has…
Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: allowing to die or causing death? -- Active euthanasia -- Death and the brain -- Challenges to a circulatory-respiratory criterion for death -- Donation after circulatory determination of death -- Vital organ donation without the dead donor…
Exposes the misconception that stopping life support merely allows patients to die from their medical conditions, and disputes the accuracy of determining death of hospitalized patients on the basis of a diagnosis of "brain death" prior to vital organ donation. Miller and Truog,…
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Intended v. foreseen life-shortening -- The value of human life -- The value of autonomy -- Legal hypocrisy? -- The slippery slope arguments -- The guidelines -- The first survey: the incidence of "euthanasia"--Breach of the guideline…
