Matters of Life and Death Author:Tom Regan, Thomas L. Beauchamp, J. Baird Callicott, James Rachels, Hugo Adam Bedau, Barbara Levenbook MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH, Third Edition, is a collection of original essays by leading philosophers devoted to the major moral issues of the day, including abortion, euthanasia, the death penalty, famine, war, suicide, the environment, and animal rights.