Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: A Medical, Ethical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspective -- Autonomy, Compassion, and Rational Suicide -- Chapter 1 - "I Will Give No Deadly Drug": Why Doctors Must Not Kill -- Chapter 2 - Compassion Is Not Enough -- Chapter 3 - Reason, Self-determination, and Physician-Assisted Suicide -- Chapter 4 - The Rise and Fall of the "Right" to Assisted Suicide -- Practice versus Theory -- Chapter 5 - The Dutch Experience -- Chapter 6 - Palliative Care and Euthanasia in the Netherlands: Observations of a Dutch Physician -- Chapter 7 - The Oregon Experiment -- Chapter 8 - Oregon's Culture of Silence -- Chapter 9 - Deadly Days in Darwin -- Reason to Be Concerned -- Chapter 10 - Not Dead Yet -- Chapter 11 - Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide -- Chapter 12 - Depression and the Will to Live in the Psychological Landscape of Terminally Ill Patients -- A Better Way -- Chapter 13 - A Hospice Perspective -- Chapter 14 - Compassionate Care, Not Assisted Suicide -- Conclusion: Changing the Culture -- Notes -- Index.