Living will, euthanasia & the advance medical directive : their different forms and manifestations / authored by S.C. Lim (R.Z. Lin)
Digitised Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
1996
Information About
This book explains the difference between a "Living Will", an Advance Medical Directive and euthanasia. The book is on legal technicalities, on issues of natural health and healing and on the secrets of the human soul. The author shares his hopes, experiences and confidence, as well as his vision on the problems and challenges of the terminally (fatally) ill.
Additional Details
- Title
- Living will, euthanasia & the advance medical directive : their different forms and manifestations / authored by S.C. Lim (R.Z. Lin)
- Creators
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- Lim, Swee Cheong
- Subject
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- Euthanasia
- Right to die
- Publisher
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- D.T. Lim, 1996
- National Library Board Singapore, 1996
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, xi, 165 p
- Table of Contents
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- ch.1 "There will be no morning after" -- ch.2 What is a "living will"? What is euthanasia? What is an Advance Medical Directive? -- ch.3 No power to heal. Only the authority to kill. "Are we to develop the instinct for the hearse?" -- ch.4 Mercy: the quality and the kind. The dead have nothing and no tales to tell -- ch.5 "The right to die!" What it is. What it is not -- ch.6 "The right to die with dignity". Empty myths and perverse reality. -- ch.7 The ghosts from the past. "The unthinkable is reality again". Is life worth the fight?
- Edition
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- 1st ed.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.