Dignity and Dying: A Christian Appraisal

PUBLISHED: September 29, 1996 PUBLISHER: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source ISBN: 0802842321

Twenty leading experts in the bioethics debate here engage, from a Christian perspective, matters of dignity and dying. These essays discuss the experience of dying; examine the concepts of autonomy, death, suffering, and faithfulness; analyze four of the most pressing end-of-life challenges — forgoing treatment, medical futility, defining of death, and assisted suicide/euthanasia — and explore alternatives to the premature ending of life.