Regulating the End of Life

Regulating the End of Life is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.

Sue Westwood is a Lecturer in Law at York Law School, University of York, UK.

Introduction 1. Introducing 'Death Rights' (Sue Westwood) Part I. Legal changes and challenges 2. Legal change on assisted dying (Penney Lewis) 3. Contesting death rights: Reflections from the Courtroom (Alex Ruck Keane) 4. Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria, Australia: A Values-Based Critique (Lindy Willmott, Katrine Del Villar and Ben White) Part II: Ethics, morals and values 5. Assisted dying, ethics and the law: For, against, or somewhere in between? (Richard Huxtable) 6. Euthanasia as life-extension (Anthony Wrigley) 7. A pro tanto moral case for assisted death (Isra Black) Part III: Rights claims 8. Understanding rights in the context of a 'right to die' (Sharon Young) 9. Dying with Conscience: The Potential Application of Article 9 ECHR to Assisted Dying (Elizabeth Wicks) 10. Euthanasia, Biopolitics, and Care of the Self (Thomas Tierney) Part IV: Transgressions 11. Laughing to death: Necrosocialities and 'right to die' activism (Ari Gandsman) 12. Choosing death in anticipation of older age-related suffering: Reflections based on a Dutch study (Els van Wijngaarden) 13. Dying alone: Exercising a right or transgressing the rules? (Glenys Caswell) 14. Embodiment, choice and control at the beginning and ending of life: Paradoxes and contradictions. A provocation (Sue Westwood)