Giving Death a Helping Hand Physician-Assisted Suicide and Public Policy. An International Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Birnbacher, Dieter (Editor), Dahl, Edgar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, 38
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

If it comes to choosing between methods of last resort for severely suffering, physician-assisted suicide will probably prove more acceptable as a method of last resort than active euthanasia both to patients, to legislators and to the general public. From the perspective of patients, physician-assi...