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Klappentext " -EthicsAn examination of the moral and philosophical issues at work in an individual's confrontation of death, not as a matter of psychological necessity or social conditioning, but as a function of reflection and the search for self-knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction and OverviewPart I: Death, Good, and EvilChapter I: Death Mystiques: Denial, Acceptance, Rebellion Chapter II: Is Death an Evil? Chapter III: If Immortality Were Possible, Would It Be Good? Chapter IV: Fearing Death and Caring for the Dying Chapter V: Is A Natural Death a Good Death? Chapter VI: Good DyingPart II: Choosing DeathIntroduction to Part II Chapter VII: Suicide: Choosing Self-Inflicted Death Chapter VIII: The Right to Choose Death Chapter IX: The Limits of Personal Autonomy: The Case of Donald/Dax Cowart Chapter X: Choosing Death for Noncompetent PersonsNotes Name Index Subject Index
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction and Overview
Part I: Death, Good, and Evil
Chapter I: Death Mystiques: Denial, Acceptance, Rebellion
Chapter II: Is Death an Evil?
Chapter III: If Immortality Were Possible, Would It Be Good?
Chapter IV: Fearing Death and Caring for the Dying
Chapter V: Is A Natural Death a Good Death?
Chapter VI: Good Dying
Part II: Choosing Death
Introduction to Part II
Chapter VII: Suicide: Choosing Self-Inflicted Death
Chapter VIII: The Right to Choose Death
Chapter IX: The Limits of Personal Autonomy: The Case of Donald/Dax Cowart
Chapter X: Choosing Death for Noncompetent Persons
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
About the author
Richard W. Momeyer
