Introduction : ending life : the way we do it, the way we could do it
pt. I. Dilemmas about dying. 1. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
2. Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it
3. Going early, going late : the rationality of decisions about physician-assisted suicide in AIDS
4. Is a physician ever obligated to help a patient die?
5. Case consultation : Scott Ames, a man giving up on himself
6. Robeck
pt. II. Historical, religious, and cultural concerns. 7. Collecting the primary texts : sources on the ethics of suicide
8. July 4, 1826 : explaining the same-day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (and what could this mean for bioethics?)
9. High risk religion : informed consent in faith healing, serpent handling, and refusing medical treatment
10. Terminal procedure
11. The ethics of self-sacrifice : what's wrong with suicide bombing?
pt. III. Dilemmas about dying in a global future. 12. Genetic information and knowing when you will die
13. Extra long life : ethical aspects of increased life span
14. Global life expectancies and international justice : a reemergence of the duty to die?
15. New life in the assisted-death debate : scheduled drugs versus NuTech
16. Empirical research in bioethics : the method of "oppositional collaboration"
17. Safe, legal, rare? : physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future.