Medically Assisted Death Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
A case for the legalisation of voluntary medically assisted death     15
Medical futility     29
Physician-assisted suicide     44
The sanctity of human life     61
Killing versus letting die, the doctrine of double effect, and palliative care for the dying     84
Professional integrity and voluntary medically assisted death     113
Competence and end-of-life decision making     137
Advance directives     155
Voluntary medically assisted death and slippery slope arguments     178
Non-voluntary euthanasia     196
Concluding remarks     219
References     222
Index of English-language legal cases     243
Index of names and subjects     244