In Forced Exit, bioethicist Wesley Smith contests the claim of euthanasia advocates that assisted suicide would be restricted to a “last resort” for people already on the verge of death and in unrelievable agony. Providing evidence that many people whose deaths have been hastened by euthanasia were not, in fact, terminally ill, he argues that the movement to legalize assisted suicide would be a disaster for the most powerless: the disabled, the critically ill, the indigent. Forced Exit documents the terrible abuses already occurring in this country as the “death culture” begins to take hold, and it reviews the truly humane and compassionate alternatives that can transform a death wish into a desire to live.
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Forced Exit
Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die
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Paperback / 350 pages
ISBN: 1594031193
AVAILABLE:1/15/2006
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Forced Exit
Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the New Duty to Die
About the Author
Lawyer and award-winning author, Wesley J. Smith, is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He is also a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.
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