Death Talk, First Edition by Margaret A. Somerville - 9780773543768

Death Talk, First EditionThe Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide\nAuthor(s): Margaret A. Somerville\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780773543768, 978-0773543768\nSynopsis\nThere are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through \""death talk.\"" Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today,.