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9781406236231

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

Accessible yet sophisticated book that explains the delicate issue of assisted suicide and asks readers to think about whether this difficult decision is ever right, wrong, or if it varies from case to case.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

13 juillet 2011

EAN13

9781406236231

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

ASSISTED SUICIDE

HOTTOPICS

ASSISTED SUICIDE ASSISTED SUICIDE

HOT TOPICS

ASSISTED SUICIDE

Mark Friedman

Raintree is an imprint of Capstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered office at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

Text © Capstone Global Library Limited 2012 First published in hardback in 2012 The moral rights of the proprietor have been asserted.

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Edited by Adam Miller, Andrew Farrow, and Adrian Vigliano Designed by Clare Webber and Steve Mead Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Ltd Picture research by Ruth Blair Production by Eirian Griffiths Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by Leo Paper Group Ltd

ISBN 978 1 406 22373 6 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Friedman, Mark D. Assisted suicide. – (Hot topics) 179.7-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy pp.16(PhotoStockFile),18(KAKIMAGE),21(© Image Source),35(Photofusion Picture Library),39(Travelscape Images),45(© Neil Tingle); Corbis pp.10(© Julie Fisher),12(© Rubberball),15(© Handout Courtesy of the Schiavo Family),25(© Rob Kim/Retna Ltd),26(© ER Productions),29(© Dean Lewins/epa),30(© Image Source); Getty Images pp.5,7(Simon Roberts),24,33(SSPL),42(Susan M. Gaetz), 49(BEN STANSALL/AFP); PA Photos pp.4(Jane Tomlinson/Bindmans),23(AP Photo/Richard Sheinwald),41(PA Archive),47(EMPICS Sport), 51(Parents of Andrew Devine).

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ConTEnTS

Controlling the end of life ......................................4

Why people choose death......................................6

The long death of Terri Schiavo........................14

The acts of euthanasia and assisted suicide.........................................................18

Jack Kevorkian..........................................................22

Advance decisions ..................................................26

Views about euthanasia and assisted suicide......................................................... 32

Assisted suicide laws around the World......................................................................38

The way forward.....................................................50

Glossary........................................................................52

Further information................................................54

Index..............................................................................56

Some words are printed in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

ConTrollIng ThE EnD of lIfE

Tony Nicklinson, a healthy middle-aged Englishman, suffers astroke. He is paralyzedfrom the neck down. He loses the ability to speak. He can only communicate by nodding his head, and he cannot feed, bathe, or dress himself. After five years of living in this “locked-in syndrome”, his doctors believe he will never improve significantly. This will be his condition for the rest of his life.

Tony Nicklinson says he wishes doctors had not saved his life. Vincent Humbert is a 22-year-old Frenchman who is injured severely in a car accident. He loses his vision and his ability to speak, and he is paralyzed from the neck down. His mother turns her life upside down to care for him, but he only wants to die to end the suffering for them both. Only able to use his right thumb to point to letters of the alphabet, he writes a letter to French President Jacques Chirac, pleading for the right to end his life. Chirac denies the request. Vincent then writes an entire book,I Ask For The Right To Die, to make his case public.

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