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The Right to Die, Third Edition analyzes the statutory and case law surrounding the profound issues of end-of-life decisionmaking. Whether the situation calls for long-term planning or quick, unexpected decisionmaking, this cogent, one source treatise guides you through all the available channels for helping your clients reach the ultimate resolution. This comprehensive edition guides general practitioners, elder law, health law, and health care professionals through complex issues pertaining to passive and active hastening of death and such subsequent statutes as The Oregon Death with Dignity Act. Also covered in the Third Edition are such issues as:
- Civil and Criminal liability for such efforts Do-not-resuscitate orders Advance directives Health care powers of attorney Palliative medical care Decisionmaking for children and newborns Surrogate decisionmaking statutes Resolution in a clinical versus a court setting And much more
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This book addresses the statutory changes that have taken place in right to die laws and considers the substantive aspects of the right to die, decision making procedures, advance directives, decision making for children and newborns, as well as the ethics involved in decisions to terminate life-sustaining treatments.
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The Right to Die
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