Active Ethanasia: is Mercy Killing the Killing of Mercy? (IN: Euthanasia: the Good of the Patient, the Good of Society, ed. by R I Misbin)

This chapter discusses the eventual admissibility & eventual desirability of the legalization of active euthanasia against the background of the situation in the Netherlands. The author asserts the importance of the answer to this question is not restricted to the Netherlands. (12 refs.)