Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about EuthanasiaAuthor: David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma, Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci Published by Springer Netherlands ISBN: 978-0-7923-5185-6 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-46863-6Table of Contents:Prologue The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up? Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide The Range of Objections to Euthanasia Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character Annie Asked, “Are You Going to Help Me?” “In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life” “The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him” “Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative” “A Tragedy”, Includes bibliographical references and index