What kind of death: the ethics of determining one's own death

Detailed table of contents available

• 1 - Introduction

Part I - Suicide

• 2 - Determining the manner and time of your own death
• 3 - The invisibility of rational suicide
• 4 - Which actions should we count as suicides
• 5 - What is implied by the right to suicide

Part II - Palliative care and palliative sedation

• 6 - Suffering and dying well: On the proper aim of palliative care
• 7 - Continuous deep sedation and homicide
• 8 - Sedation until death: indications

Part III - Euthanasia

• 9 - Euthanasia and the right to self-determination
• 10 - Ending lives with and without request
• 11 - The risks of legalization
• 12 - The Dutch and Belgian euthanasia laws: Potemkin villages?

Part IV - Hard cases

• 13 - Mental illness
• 14 - Death wishes of the very old
• 15 - The authority of advance directives
• 16 - Designing a regulatory system