The future of assisted suicide and euthanasia / Neil M. Gorsuch.

• Superior document: New forum books
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Gorsuch, Neil M. 1967-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: New forum books.
• Physical Description: ix, 311 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Glucksberg and quill controversies : the judiciary's (non)resolution of the assisted suicide debate
• 2.1. The Washington due process litigation
• 2.2. The New York equal protection litigation
• 2.3. The final battle? : the Supreme Court does (and does not) decide
• 2.4. The aftermath of Glucksberg and Quill
• 3. The debate over history
• 3.1. Which history?
• 3.2. The project
• 3.3. The ancients
• 3.4. Early Christian history
• 3.5. English common law
• 3.6. Colonial American experience
• 3.7. The modern consensus on suicide and its assistance
• 3.8. The euthanasia movement
• 3.9. Prevailing law today
• 3.10. Conclusion
• 4. Arguments from fairness and equal protection : if a right to refuse, then a right to assisted suicide?
• 4.1. An act /omission distinction?
• 4.2. A causation-based distinction?
• 4.3. Toward an intent-based distinction : the insight of the double effect principle
• 4.4. Some (initial) arguments against double effect : conflating intent and foresight
• 4.5. Distinguishing suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia from the right to refuse : intending versus foreseeing death
• 4.6. Some (additional) criticisms of double effect as applied to the assisted suicide debate
• 4.7. Conclusion
• 5. Casey and Cruzan : do they intimate a right to assisted suicide and euthanasia?
• 5.1. The "reasoned judgment" test and its critics
• 5.2. Casey-based arguments
• 5.3. Cruzan-based arguments
• 5.4. Conclusion
• 6. Autonomy theory's implications for the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia
• 6.1. The autonomy debate
• 6.2. The neutralist view of autonomy
• 6.3. The harm principle's competing view
• 6.4. Perfectionism and autonomy
• 6.5. The implications of autonomy theory for the assisted suicide and euthanasia debate
• 7. Legalization and the law of unintended consequences : utilitarian arguments for legalization
• 7.1. The Dutch experience : "virtually abuse-free"?
• 7.2. The Oregon experience : an "all-too conscientious" statutory regime?
• 7.3. Legalization and other unintended consequences
• 7.4. Decriminalization as a "costless" enterprise?
• 7.5. How to "balance" the costs and benefits of legalization?
• 7.6. Conclusion
• 8. Two test cases : Posner and Epstein
• 8.1. Posner's utilitarian case for assisted suicide
• 8.2. Posner's and Epstein's libertarian case for assisted suicide
• 9. An argument against legalization
• 9.1. The Inviolability of human life
• 9.2. What does it mean to respect human life as a basic good?
• 9.3. Some objections
• 9.4. The future of the Oregon experiment?
• 10. Toward a consistent end-of-life ethic : the "right to refuse" care for competent and incompetent patients
• 10.1. The inviolability of life and the "right to refuse" for competent persons
• 10.2. The "right to refuse" and infant patients
• 10.3. The "right to refuse" and incompetent adult patients
• 10.4. Conclusions
• Epilogue
• Appendix A. Certain American statutory laws banning or disapproving of assisted suicide
• Appendix B. Statistical calculations.