When is it right to die?: suicide, euthanasia, suffering, mercy

If he knows he's going to die, why shouldn't a doctor just help him die? Shouldn't we treat her as kindly as we treat our dogs or cats? What about all these tubes? Give me an easy conclusion for this painful situation. Joni Eareckson Tada was confronted with these questions not only a...

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Main Author: Tada, Joni Eareckson 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. Zondervan Publ. House u.a. 1992
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Summary:If he knows he's going to die, why shouldn't a doctor just help him die? Shouldn't we treat her as kindly as we treat our dogs or cats? What about all these tubes? Give me an easy conclusion for this painful situation. Joni Eareckson Tada was confronted with these questions not only as she struggled against her own paralysis, but as she sat in her wheelchair by the bedside of her dying father. So much suffering, so much pain, she thought. Why not end it all quickly ..
painlessly? More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. Other groups such as the elderly, the disabled, or even the depressed or suicidal are being swept up into this movement of "self deliverance." Books on suicide are becoming bestsellers. Bypass suffering. Leapfrog the dying process. Put a quick end to merciless pain and mental anguish. These are tempting enticements to those who hurt. When Is It Right to Die? counterbalances such "quick
fix" advice with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity. Tada offers help to those who see assisted death measures on their state ballots and wonder when legalized suicide will become a reality. Behind every booklet printed by a right-to-die or a right-to-life group is a family. A family like yours. A disabled person like Joni. In her warm, personal way, Joni takes her reader into the lives of families, the elderly, the disabled, and the terminally
Physical Description:189 S.
ISBN:0310585708

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