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Mortality is often on Joan Bakewell's mind. She's in her eighties, many of her friends have died and older relatives went long ago - and yet death is a topic we rarely discuss. It's become clear: we need to talk about death.In this groundbreaking series, Baroness Bakewell and expert guests discuss death and dying, exploring the choices open to us and confronting the questions we fear the most. This is no abstract pursuit, however, as the team tackle the most pressing practical issues at the end...

The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe. The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent "revisionist" attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. Finkielkraut's central topic is the impulse toward "negation" of the Nazi horrors: the arguments ma...

"The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia" provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia - as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization - ever published. In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil Gorsuch thoroughly assesses the strengths and weaknesses of leading contemporary ethical arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia. He explores evidence and case histories from the Netherlands a...

While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Euthanasia Society of America, interviews with important figures in the movement today, an...

The legal status of assisted death in Canada is in urgent need of clarification and reform. If this is to take place, however, the process must be informed by a careful, thorough, and thoughtful analysis of the issues. In Dying Justice, Jocelyn Downie provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of significant developments in the current legal status of assisted death in Canada. She then recasts the framework for analysis in terms of the nature of the decision for assisted death. Refusals of...

This book discusses the emotional issues surrounding suicide and assisted death, looking at the current situation worldwide regarding people's attitudes towards personal choice in dying. This important issue is becoming increasingly relevant in today's society with its ageing population, and this book attempts to clarify the situation. It looks at the rights and feelings of patients and their family and friends. It also covers the advantages and legal status of advance directives, and outlines t...

Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new collec...

Ann Humphry, with her husband Derek (author of the "assisted suicide" manual "Final Exit") co-founded the Hemlock Society, leading the fight to legalize euthanasia. Her suicide in 1991, and her allegation that her husband drove her to it, made headlines worldwide. Rita Marker, who has long been one of euthanasia's opponents, relates the detail of Ann's tragic death, and of their improbable friendship, and presents all the issues involved in the euthanasia debate, from allowing nature to take its...

Medical science now allows us to live longer than ever before. So living with pain and dying well have become major concerns for the general community, health practitioners, church groups and politicians. Should these issues be decided in private by individuals or must we legislate ethical guidelines? Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerfu...

Why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for'Most men don't fear death. They fear those things - the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb - which precede, by microseconds if you're lucky, and many years if you're not, the moment of death.'When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it. I...

Das Thema "Kinderfachabteilungen" wird in seinen vielseitigen Dimensionen dargestellt. Dabei handelte es sich im Zweiten Weltkrieg um etwa 30 Toetungsstatten in der Psychiatrie und anderen Heileinrichtungen im "Grossdeutschen Reich", in denen uber 5.000 geistig und koerperlich behinderte Kinder umgebracht wurden. Vorgestellt wird die aktuelle Gedenkkultur in diesem Bereich und es werden Fragestellungen der Forschung vorgestellt, die auch fur andere Opfergruppen relevant sind. Weiterhin werden De...