Dying Right provides an overview of the Death With Dignity movement, a history of how and why Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, and an analysis of the future of physician-assisted suicide. Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral, and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.

John Dombrink is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California Irvine.
Daniel Hillyard is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Criminology Law and Society at the University of California Irvine.

Preface Acknowledgements Chapter One: A Fate Worse Than Death: Challenging the Legal Treatment of Dying Chapter Two: Death with Dignity: The Early States, 1991-1992 Chapter Three: Passage of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act Chapter Four: A Movement to Repeal the Oregon Death With Dignity Act Chapter Five: Compassion in Dying: The Assisted Suicide Test Case Chapter Six: Building the Safe Harbor: The Implementation of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act Chapter Seven: Death With Dignity in Other States and Other Countries Chapter Eight: The Good Death: Contesting Moral Boundaries References Index