Reason, Self-Determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide (IN: The Case Against Assisted Suicide: for the Right to End-of-life Care, ed. by K Foley & H Hendin)

The author explores two fundamental questions about euthanasia & assisted suicide: 1) Ought the general duty of the physician to relive suffering encompass the right to assist a patient to take his or her own life?; & 2) What should be done in response to suffering? He argues that the relief of suffering is not human beings’ highest moral duty to each other, & that euthanasia is not a reasonable response to suffering.