Assisted dying and human dignity are two extremely contested topics in Bioethics. This volume offers the first book-length attempt to bring both together. Its authors develop detailed philosophical analyses of dignity, and how it relates to assisted suicide and euthanasia.

• Contributors


• 1. Sebastian Muders: Introduction


• A. Dignity and the Case of Assisted Death


• 2. Jeff McMahan: Dignity and the Case Against Assisted Death


• 3. Ralf Stoecker: Dignity and the Case in Favor of Assisted Death


• B. Dignity at the End of Life


• 4. L. W. Sumner: Dignity Through Thick and Thin


• 5. Robert George/Christopher Kaczor: Death with Dignity: A Dangerous Euphemism


• C. Dignity and Disability


• 6. David Wasserman: Physical Disability, Dignity, and Physician Assisted Death


• 7. Rebecca Dresser: Dementia, Dignity, and Assisted Death


• D. Dignity and Autonomy


• 8. Sebastian Muders: Autonomy and the Value of Life as Elements of Human Dignity


• 9. Michael Cholbi: Dignity, Price, and Assisted Dying


• E. Dignity and the Value of Life


• 10. Luke Gormally: Two Competing Conceptions of Dignity


• 11. William FitzPatrick: The Value of Life and the Dignity of Persons


• F. Dignity and Rights


• 12. Margaret Battin: Dignity as a Fundamental Human Right Revisited


• 13. Holger Baumann/Peter Schaber: Dignity as Moral Status and the Debate about Assisted Death

Research Fellow, Ethics Research Institute, University of Zurich