Death And DecisionErnan Mcmullin |
Contents
Where to Draw the Lines | 15 |
Justifying a Definition of Death16 A | 28 |
Psychosocial Factors in Coping with Dying | 45 |
Copyright | |
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act of euthanasia active euthanasia acute crisis alive allowed anxiety argue authentic autonomy brain death cessation charity chronic coma comatose patient concepts of death conceptual definitions concerned condition consciousness coping mechanisms Court criteria culture dead decision definitions of death discussion disease distinction doctor duty dying person emotional ethics evil example experience fear feelings function hospital human biological human personal Ibid illness important individual involved issues Jehovah's Witness John Hughlings Jackson Joseph Fletcher judicial Justice Markowitz Karen Quinlan killing live living-dying interval matter means medical ethics medicine meningitis mental moral neocortex neocortical normal obligations one's operational definitions organs oriented definitions pain perhaps physician possible problem prolong question reason refuse relationship respiration responsibility right to die role sense sentience sick person social someone suffering suicide terminal phase thanatologist therapy things tion traditional trajectory transfusions treatment Tristram Engelhardt whole-brain wish
References to this book
Ethics and Aging: The Right to Live, the Right to Die James Edward Thornton,Earl Raye Winkler Limited preview - 2011 |