Last Rights: Death Control and the Elderly in America
- ISBN-10
- 0669273708
- ISBN-13
- 9780669273700
- Series
- Last Rights
- Category
- Frail elderly
- Pages
- 372
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Author
- Barbara Logue
Description
Discusses how the long-term medical care system has caused prolonged suffering for sick elderly people, and advocates legal and medical control of assisted deaths and protection of the right to choose to die
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