Freedom to Die: People, Politics, and the Right-to-Die Movement
Derek Humphrey, Mary Clement, "Freedom to Die: People, Politics, and the Right-to-Die Movement"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0312253893, 0312194153 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 0.5 mb
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0312253893, 0312194153 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 0.5 mb
Over the last decade, America has served as the battleground for a major political, social, cultural and religious war over one of the most fundamental questions we face: the right to die. Much like aborton in the 1970s, the right to die has emerged as one of the most urgent social issues for the coming years.
The strength of the right-to-die movement was underscored as early as 1991, when Derek Humphry published Final Exit, the movement's call to arms that inspired literally hundreds of thousands of Americans who wished to understand the concepts of assisted suicide and the right to die with dignity. In 2011 Final Exit was in its 3rd edition.
Now Humphry has joined forces with attorney Mary Clement to write Freedom to Die, which places this civil rights story within the framework of American social history. More than a chronology of the movement, this book explores the inner motivations of an entire society. Reaching back to the years just after World War II, Freedom to Die explores the roots of the movements and answers the question: Why now, at the end of the twentieth century, has the right-to-die movement become part of the mainstream debate?