Is There a Duty to Die?
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Is There A Duty to Die? is the seventeenth annual volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews, a series of texts designed to review and update the literature on issues of central importance in bioethics today. The goal of this volume was to initiate an in-depth discussion of the issue by soliciting articles and papers on the topic Is There A Duty to Die?. Booknews Philosophers and bioethicists revisit the question first raised by Dr. Margaret Battin in 1987 in her essay, "Age Distribution and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty-To-Die?" Following a new article by Dr. Battin titled "Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die" are six more essays sympathetic to the claim that there is a duty to die. The last five articles attempt to cast doubt on either the existence of a duty to die or the possibility of implementing one. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceContributorsGlobal Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die1Is There a Duty to Die?23Do We Have a Duty to Die?41The Duty to Die: A Contractarian Approach61Rule Utilitarianism and the Right to Die79The Nature, Scope, and Implications of a Personal Moral Duty to Die95Analyzing the Moral Duty to Die115Duty to Die133How Could there Be a Duty to Die?159Do We Ever Have a Duty to Die?Grandma, the GNP, and the Duty to Die191Dying for Others: Family, Altruism, and a Duty to Die205Index217
