The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the

In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Dr. Kathleen Foley and Dr. Herbert Hendin uncover why pleas for patient autonomy and compassion, often used in favor of legalizing euthanasia, do not advance or protect the rights of terminally ill patients. Incisive essays by authorities in the fields of medicine, law, and bioethics draw on studies done in the Netherlands, Oregon, and Australia by the editors and contributors that show the dangers that legalization of assisted suicide would pose to the most vulnerable patients. Thoughtful and persuasive, this book urges the medical profession to improve palliative care and develop a more humane response to the complex issues facing those who are terminally ill.

Kathleen Foley, M.D., is professor of neurology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and director of the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation.Herbert Hendin, M.D., is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at New York Medical College and medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

List of Contributors

xi

Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective

1

(16)

Kathleen Foley

Herbert Hendin

Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide

``I Will Give No Deadly Drug'': Why Doctors Must Not Kill

17

(24)

Leon R. Kass

Compassion Is Not Enough

41

(11)

Edmund D. Pellegrino

Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide

52

(17)

Daniel Callahan

The Rise and Fall of the ``Right'' to Assisted Suicide

69

(28)

Yale Kamisar

Practice Versus Theory

The Dutch Experience

97

(25)

Herbert Hendin

Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician

122

(22)

Zbigniew Zylicz

The Oregon Experiment

144

(31)

Kathleen Foley

Herbert Hendin

Oregon's Culture of Silence

175

(17)

N. Gregory Hamilton

Deadly Days in Darwin

192

(21)

David W. Kissane

Reason to Be Concerned

Not Dead Yet

213

(25)

Diane Coleman

Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide

238

(23)

Felicia Cohn

Joanne Lynn

Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally III Patients

261

(20)

Harvey M. Chochinov

Leonard Schwartz

A Better Way

A Hospice Perspective

281

(12)

Cicely Saunders

Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide

293

(18)

Kathleen Foley

Conclusion: Changing the Culture

311

(22)

Kathleen Foley

Herbert Hendin

Notes

333

(32)

Index

365

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