Ending Life Ethics And The Way We Die Author:M. Pabst Battin Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in the bioethical arena of end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and t... more »he Netherlands, to the trial and conviction of Jack Kevorkian, to recent debates about NuTech methods of assistance in dying, suicide bombing, and extra-long life. Battin presents an entirely new collection of work, covering a wide range of topics but again centering on issues of withdrawing or withholding treatment, suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia in both international and American contexts. As with the earlier volume, these new essays are theoretical but draw heavily on factual material; new in this volume are attention to suicide in old age as well as terminal illness, and the use of fictional techniques to illuminate particularly sensitive issues.« less