Simon Chapman
Stephen Leeder (eds.)
Originally published by Mandarin Books
Port Melbourne, Victoria 1995
ISBN 1 86330 504 1
Now out of print

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Eleanor Clift
Basic Books
ISBN: 046500251X

Author and Newsweek contributing editor Eleanor Clift tackles one of the most important issues facing the modern world: how we deal, or fail to deal, with dying. She provides a very personal narrative as she alternates between the much-publicized death of Terri Schiavo and that of her own husband.

Stephen G. Post
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801864100

Society today, writes Stephen Post, is "hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas. How are we to view -- and value -- persons deprived of what some consider the most important human capacities?

John West
Counterpoint LLC
ISBN: 9781582434483

This memoir by the former Seattle trial attorney provides an eloquent testament to the need for “death with dignity” laws like the one passed in Washington in 2008 and its pioneering counterpart in Oregon.

Susan Varga
UWA Press
ISBN: 9781921401237

Julia has suddenly lost her husband and, along with him, her will to live. The vital, energetic old woman that her daughter Kati thought she knew has disappeared almost overnight. How is Kati to cope with a mother constantly on the verge of suicide?

Thomas Dumm
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674031135

“What does it mean to be lonely?” Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals.