The Right to Die, Third Edition analyzes the statutory and case law surrounding the profound
issues of end-of-life decisionmaking. Whether the situation calls for long-term planning or …

Over the last four decades, end-of-life law has had a life, so to speak, of its own. Through
court decisions and statutes, state laws specify the medical conditions in which someone …

In the quarter century since the landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, an ethical, legal, and
societal consensus supporting patients' rights to refuse life-sustaining treatment has become …

In 2003, the well-publicized case of Terry Schiavo captivated America and painted a chilling
picture of end of life decision-making at the beginning of the 21st century. Schiavo was …

Americans hardly need to be reminded that our health care system is in the midst of
tremendous change, perhaps the greatest change in the shortest amount of time that has …

Early in 1970, just as we were organizing The Hastings Center, we had to decide which
issues on a long menu of possibilities should receive our early attention. At the top of our list …

Individuals who are facing declining health and eventual death experience intense
emotional and psychological challenges. Yet mental health disciplines like psychology and …

This chapter explores the way law has involved itself in medical decisionmaking at the end
of life. It considers the right to die as an occasion to introduce medicine's moral compass and …

Over the past three decades, courts addressing cases involving the forgoing of life-
sustaining medical treatment (" LSMT") 1 have of necessity developed a new body of law to …

AWYERS and professors have been thinking about death and dying for a long time. This is
not just morbid fascination. Lawyers must counsel clients in estate planning and professors …