Death Talk, First Edition: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

by Margaret Somerville

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077352245X
• ISBN13: 9780773522459
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"