Contents

• Pt. 1. Conceptual Issues. 1. Meanings of Death / Patricia S. Mann. 2. Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Intending Death / Frances M. Kamm. 3. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Safe, Legal, Rare? / Margaret P. Battin
• Pt. 2. Considering Those at Risk. 4. Assisted Suicide: Are the Elderly a Special Case? / Leslie Pickering Francis. 5. Lessons for Physician-Assisted Suicide From the African- American Experience / Patricia A. King and Leslie E. Wolf. 6. Why Suicide Is Like Contraception: A Women-Centered View / Dena S. Davis. 7. Disability and Life-Ending Decisions / Jerome E. Bickenbach. 8. Protecting the Innocents From Physician-Assisted Suicide: Disability Discrimination and the Duty to Protect Otherwise Vulnerable Groups / Anita Silvers. 9. Assisted Suicide, Terminal Illness, Severe Disability, and the Double Standard / Felicia Ackerman
• Pt. 3. Considering the Practice of Medicine. 10. Physicians, Assisted Suicide, and the Right to Live or Die / Rosamond Rhodes. 11. Physician, Stay Thy Hand! / Bernard Baumrin. 12. An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Conceptual and Moral Analysis / Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver and K. Danner Clouser. 13. Not in the House: Arguments for a Policy of Excluding Physician-Assisted Suicide from the Practice of Hospital Medicine / Michael Teitelman
• Pt. 4. Considering the Impact of Legalization. 14. Physician- Assisted Suicide: To Decriminalize or to Legalize, That Is the Question / Lance K. Stell. 15. From Intention to Consent: Learning from Experience with Euthanasia / Helga Kuhse. 16. The Weakness of the Case for Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide / Don Marquis. 17. Physician- Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View / John D. Arras. 18. The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: An Ethically Inferior Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide / David Orentlicher. 19. Would Physician-Assisted Suicide Save the Healthcare System Money? (Or, Is Jack Kevarkian Doing All of Us a Favor?) / Merrill Matthews, Jr.
• Pt. 5. Considering Religious Perspectives. 20. A Catholic Perspective on Physician-Assisted Suicide / John J. Paris and Michael P. Moreland. 21. Christian Perspectives on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: The Anglican Tradition / Cynthia B. Cohen. 22. A Protestant Perspective on Ending Life: Faithfulness in the Face of Death / Allen Verhey. 23. Jewish Deliberations on Suicide: Exceptions, Toleration, and Assistance / Noam J. Zohar
• Pt. 6. Appendices
• A. Washington et al. v. Glucksberg et al.: Text of the Supreme Court Decision Delivered by Chief Justice Rehnquist. Concurring Opinions by Justices O’Connor, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
• B. Vacco et al. v. Quill et al.: Text of the Supreme Court Decision Delivered by Chief Justice Rehnquist. Concurring Opinions by Justices O’Connor, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
• C. The Philosophers’ Brief: Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson
• D. The Oregon Death With Dignity Act: Ballot Measure No. 16