The Right to Die with Dignity

The author attempts a balanced approach to the right to die debate, viewing the dispute from public policy and international perspectives. He offers an interdisciplinary approach, including medicine, law, religion, and ethics. With a comprehensive look at the troubling question of whether physician-assisted suicide should be allowed, he delineates a distinction between active and passive euthanasia and discusses legal measures that have been involved in the United States and abroad.

~Issues in Law & Medicine

Cohen-Almagor uses insightful examples and applies his penetrating intellect to shed light upon some of the most difficult choices that arise at the end of life.

~Robert D. Truog M.D., professor of anesthesia and medical ethics, Harvard Medical School

A nuanced discussion of some of the most difficult issues in health, law, and bioethics today, written in a lively prose and with a clear sense of moral passion. The international perspective is particularly useful and, undoubtedly, Cohen-AlmagorÆs arguments and conclusions will provoke discussion.

~John D. Lantos M.D., codirector, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, The University of Chi