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Almost over : aging, dying, dead / F.M. Kamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death.
- Aging.
- Assisted suicide.
- Capital punishment.
- Attitude to Death.
- Suicide, Assisted.
- Capital Punishment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Attitude to Death.
- Death.
- Suicide, Assisted.
- Capital Punishment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Aging, dying, dead
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Discussing philosophical, legal, and medical issues related to aging, dying, and death, this text considers different views about whether and why death is bad for the person who dies, and whether these views bear on why it would be bad if there were no more persons at all. The book looks at how the general public is being asked to think about end-of-life issues by examining some questionnaires and conversation guides that have been developed. It also considers views about the process of dying and whether it might make sense to not resist death, or even to bring about the end of one's life, given certain views about meaning in life and what things it is worth living on to get and do.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 27, 2020).
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-009717-5
- 0-19-009718-3
- 0-19-009716-7
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