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Mortality.
ISSN: 14699885 13576275 Year: 1996 Publisher: [Abingdon, Oxfordshire] : [Abingdon, Oxfordshire] : Carfax International Publishers, Taylor & Francis

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Thanatology --- Death --- Bereavement --- Undertakers and undertaking --- Attitude to Death --- Mortuary Practice --- Mortality. --- Vital Statistics. --- Attitude to Death. --- Death. --- Bereavement. --- Thanatology. --- Undertakers and undertaking. --- Loss of loved ones by death --- Registration of Vital Statistics --- Registration, Vital Statistics --- Statistics, Vital --- Vital Statistics Registration --- Registrations, Vital Statistics --- Vital Statistics Registrations --- Age Specific Death Rate --- Age-Specific Death Rate --- Case Fatality Rate --- Decline, Mortality --- Determinants, Mortality --- Differential Mortality --- Excess Mortality --- Mortality Decline --- Mortality Determinants --- Mortality Rate --- Mortality, Differential --- Mortality, Excess --- Death Rate --- Age-Specific Death Rates --- Case Fatality Rates --- Death Rate, Age-Specific --- Death Rates --- Death Rates, Age-Specific --- Declines, Mortality --- Determinant, Mortality --- Differential Mortalities --- Excess Mortalities --- Mortalities --- Mortalities, Differential --- Mortalities, Excess --- Mortality Declines --- Mortality Determinant --- Mortality Rates --- Rate, Age-Specific Death --- Rate, Case Fatality --- Rate, Death --- Rate, Mortality --- Rates, Age-Specific Death --- Rates, Case Fatality --- Rates, Death --- Rates, Mortality --- Disease --- Funeral directors --- Funeral industry --- Morticians --- Mortuary practice --- Dying --- End of life --- Death studies --- Cardiac Death --- Determination of Death --- Near-Death Experience --- Death, Cardiac --- Attitudes to Death --- Death, Attitude to --- Death, Attitudes to --- mortality --- Philosophy --- Study and teaching --- Mortality --- Vital Statistics --- Consolation --- Loss (Psychology) --- Fatal Outcome --- Death care industry --- Funeral homes --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- CFR Case Fatality Rate --- Crude Death Rate --- Crude Mortality Rate --- Crude Death Rates --- Crude Mortality Rates --- Death Rate, Crude --- Mortality Rate, Crude --- Rate, Crude Death --- Rate, Crude Mortality --- End Of Life --- End-Of-Life --- Vital statistics. --- Mort --- Deuil --- Mortalité. --- Statistiques de l'état civil. --- Mort. --- mortality. --- deaths. --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique. --- Vital event statistics --- Vital rates --- Statistics --- Demography --- Population --- Registers of births, etc. --- Sex --- Mortality, Law of --- Death (Biology) --- Psychology --- Causes

Rethinking life & death : the collapse of our traditional ethics
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ISBN: 0312144016 0312118805 0192861840 9780312144012 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Griffin,

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Singer shows just why our traditional ethic of life and death is collapsing all around us - but instead of lamenting the fact, as traditional moralists do, he sees it as an opportunity to move forward to a more soundly based approach. In discussing themes like euthanasia, brain death, abortion, and the treatment of patients in a persistent vegetative state, Singer boldly discards the old rhetoric and meaningless cliches about the sanctity of human life. Instead he produces a fresh account of when life should be regarded as precious and worth preserving, and when it should not be. Using provocative case studies, Singer vividly describes the break-up of our current ethic of life and death. He asks penetrating questions like: What are the results of the classic Dutch experiment with voluntary euthanasia? What are its implications for the future and will a similar system work in the United States? Is the definition of death in terms of "brain death" a medical judgment? Or is it an ethical choice based on our need for organs and the emotional and financial futility of keeping human beings in this state alive? Why do we consider it wrong to take organs from a baby born without a brain, but acceptable to take them from an ape? Is it really possible to defend abortion on the grounds of "choice" or do we have to make up our minds first about the status of the fetus and whether it has rights in the first place? With Rethinking Life and Death, Peter Singer describes a world that has already begun to be revolutionized by twenty-first-century technology, and in doing so, provides us all with a profound reexamination of the ethics that govern how we live and how we die.

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