Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide [Paperback]

Margaret A. Somerville (Author)

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Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; 1 edition (Dec 14 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 077352245X
ISBN-13: 978-0773522459
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.3 x 3.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 676 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #294,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3 in Books > Professional & Technical > Medical > Medicine > Euthanasia
- #6 in Books > Law > Family & Health Law > Right to Die
- #37 in Books > Science > Medicine > Physician & Patient > Physicians

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"This book would be a most welcome addition to the library of any person interested in the debate on euthanasia. Somerville succeeds in discussing openly and honestly both sides of he euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide debate.." Saskatchewan Law Review

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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 talk." Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the "death talk" articulated in the euthanasia debate with "life talk," Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the unfolding euthanasia debate is captured through the inclusion of Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions.

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We live at a time of unusually intense activity with respect to the evolution of a new cultural paradigm (on which to base a new societal one): the store of values, attitudes, beliefs, commitments, and myths. Read the first page

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