New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Introduction.- Assisted Dying and the Proper Role of Patient Autonomy.- Preventing Assistance to Die: Assessing Indirect Paternalism Regarding Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.- Autonomy, Interests, Justice and Active Medical Euthanasia.- Mental Illness, Lack of Autonomy, and Physician-Assisted Death.- Euthanasia for Mental Suffering.- Assisted Dying for Individuals with Dementia: Challenges for Translating Ethical Positions into Law.- Clinical Ethics Consultation and Physician Assisted Suicide.- License to Kill: A New Model for Excusing Medically Assisted Dying?.- Medically Enabled Suicides.- Saving Lives with Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Organ Donation after
Assisted Dying.- Implanted Medical Devices and End-of-Life Decisions.- Everyday Attitudes about Euthanasia and the Slippery Slope Argument.