The Right to Die 2 Volume Set

Description

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 quick, unexpected decisionmaking, this cogent, one source treatise guides you through all the available channels for helping your clients reach the ultimate resolution.
This comprehensive edition guides general practitioners, elder law, health law, and health care professionals through complex issues pertaining to passive and active hastening of death and such subsequent statutes as The Oregon Death with Dignity Act. Also covered in the Third Edition are such issues as:

Civil and Criminal liability for such efforts
Do-not-resuscitate orders
Advance directives
Health care powers of attorney
Palliative medical care
Decisionmaking for children and newborns
Surrogate decisionmaking statutes
Resolution in a clinical versus a court setting
And much more