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Summary:

Presents opposing viewpoints on various issues related to death and dying, including determination of death, treatment of the terminally ill, and coping with grief.

Table of Contents:

• Brain death should determine death / James P. Orlowski
• Brain death may not determine death / Joseph C. Evers, Paul A. Byrne
• People in vegetative states should be considered dead / Robyn S. Shapiro
• People in vegetative states should not be considered dead / Julie Grimstad
• Death should be determined by individual choice / Robert M. Veatch
• Death should be determined by law / James M. Humber
• Hospices provide the best care for the terminally ill / Patricia Anderson
• Hospices may not provide the best care for the terminally ill / Vicki Brower
• Home care may be best for the dying / Deborah Duda
• Hospitals can effectively respond to the dying / Ina Ajemian, Balfour Mount
• Living wills can best enable patients to end treatment / Jane E. Brody
• Living wills do not ensure a patient's right to die / Lauraine Thomas
• Living wills can lead to unnecessary deaths / Raymond Voulo
• Physicians can use advance directives to help dying patients / Carl M. Kjellstrand
• Physicians do not need advance directives / Philip R. Alper
• Grief follows a predictable pattern / Patricia Anderson
• Grief may not follow a predictable pattern / Daniel Goleman
• Cope with death by openly grieving / Stephen Levine
• Open grieving may not be necessary / Norman Klein

• Friends can help the grieving cope with death / Barbara Russell Chesser
• Friends may harm the grieving process / Ira Nerken
• Professionally arranged funerals can help the grieving / National Funeral Directors Association
• Family-arranged funerals can help the grieving / Lisa Carlson
• Human consciousness may survive death / William A. Reinsmith
• Human consciousness does not survive death / Paul Edwards
• Near-death experiences demonstrate the existence of an afterlife / Raymond A. Moody Jr.
• Near-death experiences do not demonstrate the existence of an afterlife / Susan Blackmore
• A belief in an afterlife gives life meaning / Timothy K. Jones
• Belief in an afterlife is folly / Verle Muhrer.

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Contributors:

Dudley, William, 1964-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Subjects:

Terminal care — Moral and ethical aspects

Death — Moral and ethical aspects

Terminal care

Death

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.

Physical Description:

236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Call Numbers:

R726.8 .D3783 1992

ISBNs:

0899081924 (acid-free paper)
0899081673 (pbk., acid-free paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

92006667

OCLC Numbers:

25409138