The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook

by Howard Ball

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die--often in great pain and suffering.

In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were tuberculosis and other respiratory illnesses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440843112
• ISBN13: 9781440843112
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"