Make Your Own Living Trust (2nd ed..) by Mary Randolph $21.95
Property left in a living trust bypasses probate court proceedings and goes directly to the person it's left to. This book provides a thorough explanation of how a living trust works and how to create one, how to transfer property to the trust and how to amend or revoke it at any time. Includes forms and instructions. Valid in all states except Louisiana.
A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life by William Colby $15.00
The fail-safe plan for ensuring one's final wishes are respected Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step Compassion Protocol outlined in A Better...
Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom by Vintage $16.00
One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and how we as a society can reconcile our values of life and individual liberty.
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse by Harvard University Press $26.95
Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and...
Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America by AMACOM $17.95
It often seems that medical technology is a never-ending string of miracles. But it is also a double-edged sword. More often than not, death today happens because of a decision to stop doing something, or to not do it at all. As the tragic life and death of Terri Schiavo so poignantly illustrated, universal definitions of life, death, nature, and many other concepts are elusive at best. Unplugged...
Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die by Oxford University Press, USA $30.00
Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands, to a furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs...
Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan by Hay House $14.95
As the trial over her fate rages in a stately old courtroom in southwestern Missouri, the unmistakable voice of Ted Koppel tells the nation about Nancy Cruzan— "This is, at one and the same time, one of the simplest and one of the most complicated stories with which we have ever dealt." Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan follows an ordinary family’s extraordinary journey...
Killing and Letting Die by Fordham University Press $55.00
This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and letting die.Since public awareness of this issue has increased this second edition includes nine entirely new essays which bring the treatment of the subject up-to-date. The urgency of this issue can be gauged in recent developments such as the...
Living Wills and Powers of Attorney for California (Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California) by Nolo $29.99
This book helps Californians, and their families avoid problems if they ever become unable to make health care or financial decisions for themselves. It contains forms and instructions for completing these documents: California Adbance Health Care Directive, Do Not Resuscitate Order, California Durable Power of Attorney for Finances. All forms available as tearouts and on CDROM.
Denial of the Soul: Spiritual and Medical Perspectives on Euthanasia and Mortality by Diane Pub Co $15.00
Explores the issue of euthanasia & the right to die. Poses the questions we should all ask ourselves & helps us determine the spiritual lessons that dying is meant to teach us. The Hippocratic Oath decrees that physicians prolong life & relieve suffering. However, technological advancements have blurred the lines between these issues. He rails against the inadequate treatment of physical pain &...