A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his nose and into his stomach. On 4 February 1993 Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him could lawfully act to end his life.
Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook.
In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of death, abortion, euthanasia and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place.
Singer outlines a new set of commandments, based on compassion and commonsense, for the decisions everyone must make about life and death.
- ISBN10 0192861840
- ISBN13 9780192861849
- Publish Date 21 September 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 268
- Language English