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.

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.