Ethics at the end of life : new issues and arguments

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Is it possible to be better off dead? / Geoffrey Scarre -- How does death harm the deceased? / Taylor W. Cyr -- The significance of an afterlife / Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin -- The severity of death / Jens Johansson -- Defining death / John K. Davis -- Autonomy, competence, and end of life / James Stacey Taylor -- Deciding for the incompetent / Eric Vogelstein -- Change of mind: an issue for advance directives / Paul T. Menzel -- Medical futility and respect for patient autonomy / Nancy S. Jecker -- Refusing lifesaving medical treatment and food and water by mouth / Paul T. Menzel -- Suicide, physician-assisted suicide, the doing-allowing distinction, and double effect / Thomas S. Huddle -- Grief and end-of-life surrogate decision-making / Michael Cholbi -- Solidarity near the end of life: the promise of relational decision-making in the care of the dying / Bruce Jennings -- Justice and the aging of the human species / Colin Farrelly.