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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827329203321

Autore

Syme Rodney

Titolo

Time to die / / Rodney Syme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlton, Victoria : , : Melbourne University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-522-87094-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages)

Disciplina

179.7

Soggetti

Euthanasia

Suffering

Death

Assisted suicide

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-194) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Medical science now allows us to live longer than ever before. So living with pain and dying well have become major concerns for the general community, health practitioners, church groups and politicians. Should these issues be decided in private by individuals or must we legislate ethical guidelines? Rodney Syme has been an advocate for medically assisted dying for more than twenty years. In Time to Die he reflects on those living and dying in pain and shares their stories. Syme makes a powerful case for extending the right to die to those whose suffering is unbearable.