Death and dying: a reader

1. Biology, consciousness, and the definition of death / David DeGrazia

2. Catholic teaching on prolonging life : setting the record straight / Michael Panicola

3. Tube feeding and advance progressive dementia / Stephen G. Post

4. Secondary and tertiary palliative care in U.S. hospitals / Charles F. von Gunten

5. The Oregon Report : don't ask, don't tell / Kathleen Foley, Herbert Hendin

6. Responding to requests for physician-assisted suicide : "these are uncharted waters for both of us. . . ." / Paul B. Bascom, Susan W. Tolle

7. Physician-assisted suicide : ten questions / Thomas A. Shannon

8. "I could not give her health but I could give her rest" : "it's over, Debbie" / Anonymous

9. The history of euthanasia debates in the United States and Britain / Ezekiel J. Emanuel

10. Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act / Upper House of the States General, the Netherlands, Parliamentary Year 2000-2001.