A Good Death: An argument for voluntary euthanasia
MUP, $32.95 pb, 301 pp
Non-fiction
A Good Death: An argument for voluntary euthanasia
by Jay Daniel Thompson •
In A Good Death, Rodney Syme outlines his case for the legalisation of euthanasia. Drawing on his experience working with seriously ill patients over several decades, Syme (a medical practitioner) advances the controversial argument that ‘physician-assisted death’ is a humane response to ‘intolerable and otherwise unrelievable suffering’.
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