Regulating the End of Life

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)