Euthanasia Is Not the Answer: A Hospice Physician's View A Good Death: Taking More Control at the End of Your Life The Right to Die: Policy Innovation and Its Consequences
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By David Cundiff. 190 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 1992. $17.95. ISBN 0-89603-237-X. (A Merloyd Lawrence Book.) by Choice in Dying, T. Patrick Hill, and David Shirley. 160 pp. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1992. $11.95. ISBN 0-201-06223-2. By Henry R. Glick. 238 pp. New York, Columbia University Press, 1992. $32.50. ISBN 0-231-07638-X.
It is no longer possible to escape the growing public demandthat the medical profession pay more attention to end-of-lifecare. Public-opinion surveys show that increasing numbers ofpeople support measures that give more control to patients atthe end of their lives, including active assistance from physiciansin the form of either euthanasia or assisted suicide. True-lifecases ranging from the notorious activities of Michigan pathologistDr. Jack Kevorkian to the sympathetic story told by Dr. TimothyQuill in the Journal (1991;324:691-694) have resulted in grandjuries or courts unwilling to indict or convict, reinforcingthe message that our . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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