ch. 1. Is assisted suicide ethical? --

Assisted suicide shows compassion for the dying / Arthur Rifkin --

Assisted suicide is consistent with Christian beliefs / John Shelby Spong --

Christian arguments against suicide are misguided / John A. Pridonoff --

Allowing competent people to commit suicide is ethical / Julian Savulescu --

Physician-assisted suicide undermines medical ethics / American Medical News --

Assisted suicide distorts the meaning of mercy / Charles J. Chaput --

Assisted suicide violates Christian beliefs / Diane Komp --

Assisted suicide violates the dignity of patients / John Bookser Feister --

Assisted suicide is not morally equivalent to letting patients die / James F. Bresnahan --

ch. 2. Is assisted suicide a constitutional right? --

Bans on assisted suicide violate the Fourteenth Amendment / Stephen Reinhardt --

Assisted suicide is an individual freedom / James Kilpatrick --

Assisted suicide is a fundamental constitutional right / Ronald A. Lindsay --

Assisted suicide is the ultimate civil right / Barbara Dority --

Bans on assisted suicide do not violate the Fourteenth Amendment / William Rehnquist --

Arguments supporting a constitutional right to suicide are illogical / Michael M. Uhlmann --

Constitutional right to assisted suicide would threaten patients' right to refuse treatment / Wendy K. Mariner --

Supreme Court's position on assisted suicide is valid / Alexander Morgan Capron --

ch. 3. Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized? --

Legalized physician-assisted suicide would improve treatment of the terminally ill / Stephen Jamison --

Safeguards can prevent the abuse of physician-assisted suicide / Sherwin Nuland --

Legalized physician-assisted suicide would not threaten the disabled / Karen Hwang --

Arguments against legalizing physician-assisted suicide are unconvincing / Barbara Dority --

Support for legalized physician-assisted suicide is based on mistaken notions / Ezekiel Emanuel --

Legalized physician-assited suicide would lead to abuses / Stephen Chapman --

Legalizing physician-assisted suicide would harm society / Wesley J. Smith --

Legalized physician-assisted suicide would damage the physican-patient relationship / Jon Fuller --

ch. 4. How would assisted suicide affect individuals' rights? --

Assisted suicide would threaten the nonfatally ill / David Morrison --

Assisted suicide would threaten the rights of the disabled / Evan J. Kemp --

Assisted suicide would create an inhumane society / Rand Richards Cooper --

Assisted suicide will be encouraged for economic reasons / Don Sloan --

Assisted suicide would respect the rights of the terminally ill / Robert C. Horn --

Assisted suicide would respect the rights of the elderly / Dudley Clendinen --

Voluntary euthanasia would not lead to involuntary killing / Chris Hackler --

Some individuals have a duty to die / John Hardwig.