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Is There a Duty to die?

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Editors:
  1. James M. Humber

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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  2. Robert F. Almeder

    1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die

    • Margaret P. Battin
    Pages 1-21

  3. Is There a Duty to Die?

    • Jan Narveson
    Pages 23-40

  4. Do We Have a Duty to Die?

    • Marilyn Bennett
    Pages 41-59

  5. The Duty to Die: A Contractarian Approach

    • Robert E. Ehman
    Pages 61-77

  6. Rule Utilitarianism and the Right to Die

    • Michael Almeida
    Pages 79-94

  7. The Nature, Scope, and Implications of a Personal Moral Duty to Die

    • Paul T. Menzel
    Pages 95-113

  8. Analyzing the Moral Duty to Die

    • J. Angelo Corlett
    Pages 115-131

  9. Duty to Die

    • Rosemarie Tong
    Pages 133-157

  10. How Could There Be a Duty to Die?

    • David Drebushenko
    Pages 159-176

  11. Do We Ever Have a Duty to Die?

    • Susan Leigh Anderson
    Pages 177-189

  12. Grandma, the GNP, and the Duty to Die

    • Judith Lee Kissell
    Pages 191-203

  13. Dying for Others: Family, Altruism, and a Duty to Die

    • Ryan Spellecy
    Pages 205-216

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 217-221
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About this book

The question of whether there might be a duty to die was first raised by Margaret Battin in 1987 in her ground-breaking essay, "Age Distribution and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty­ to-Die?" In 1997 the issue was reprised when two new articles appeared on the topic written by John Hardwig and the other by former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm. Given the renewed interest in the topic, as well as its undeniable importance, Biomedical Ethics Re­ views sought to initiate an in-depth discussion of the issue by soliciting articles and issuing a general call for papers on the topic "Is There a Duty to Die?" The twelve articles in this volume represent the ultimate fruits of those initiatives. The first seven essays in this text are sympathetic to the claim that there is a duty to die. They argue either: (a) that some form of a duty to die exists, or (b) that arguments that might be offered against the existence of such a duty cannot be sustained. By way of contrast, the last five articles in the text are critical of duty-to-die claims: The authors of the first three of these five articles attempt to cast doubt on the existence of a duty to die, and the writers of the last two essays argue that if such a duty did exist, severe problems would arise when­ ever we attempted to implement it.

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"Twelve essays comprise the volume, the first seven broadly supportive of some version of a duty to die, the last five critical of the notion. ...In short, this is a thought-provoking volume." - Ethics

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA

    James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Is There a Duty to die?

  • Editors: James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder

  • Series Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-000-1

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-783-0Published: 03 January 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-187-5Published: 19 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-000-1Published: 03 January 2000

  • Series ISSN: 0742-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 221

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics

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