Ethics at the End of Life

The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously. At the same time, a reader can use this volume to become oriented to the established questions and positions in end of life ethics, both because new questions are set in their context, and because most of the chapters—written by a team of experts—survey the field as well as add to it. Each chapter includes initial summaries, final conclusions, and a Related Topics section. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ TABLE OF CONTENTS_x005F_x000D_ John K. Davis, "Introduction"_x005F_x000D_ Geoffrey Scarre, "Is it possible to be better off dead?"_x005F_x000D_ Taylor W. Cyr, "How Does Death Harm the Deceased?"_x005F_x000D_ Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, "The Significance of an Afterlife" _x005F_x000D_ Jens Johansson, "The Severity of Death"_x005F_x000D_ John K. Davis, "Defining Death"_x005F_x000D_ James Stacey Taylor, "Autonomy, Competence, and End of Life"_x005F_x000D_ Eric Vogelstein, "Deciding for the Incompetent"_x005F_x000D_ Paul T. Menzel, "Change of Mind: An Issue for Advance Directives"_x005F_x000D_ Nancy S. Jecker, "Medical Futility and Respect for Patient Autonomy"_x005F_x000D_ Paul T. Menzel, "Refusing Lifesaving Medical Treatment and Food and Water by Mouth"_x005F_x000D_ Thomas S. Huddle, "Suicide, Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doing-Allowing Distinction and Double Effect"_x005F_x000D_ Michael Cholbi, "Grief and End of Life Surrogate Decision-making"_x005F_x000D_ Bruce Jennings, "Solidarity near the End of Life: The Promise of Relational Decision-making in the Care of the Dying" _x005F_x000D_ Colin Farrelly, "Justice and the Aging of the Human Species"