Published 2002, the revised, 3rd edition of the bestseller "Final Exit" describes the ways in which a dying person may consider hastening the end of their life if suffering is unbearable. Laws and ethics are outlined in a straightforward fashion. Drug dosage tables and the latest inert gas technique of 'self-deliverance' are explained, with illustrations.

Euthanasia, Ethics and the Law argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and often contradictory. The book shows that the rules are in competition because the ethical principles underlying the rules are also diverse and conflicting. In mounting his case Richard Huxtable considers some familiar and topical debates, including assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia, examining such situations as the Dianne Pretty litigation and Lord Joffe's Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. The book also enters some important, but less well-charted areas, looking at the advent of 'death tourism' and the real status of involuntary and passive euthanasia in English law, in addition to clarifying the confusion that surrounds the use of powerful painkillers like morphine. Dealing with both legal and ethical issues, the text concludes that the time has come to more openly adopt a compromise position - one that more honestly recognises and accommodates the competing values, whilst also restoring a measure of coherence to the law.

Эта удивительная книга — вероятно, одна из самых спорных книг ХХ века — впервые вышла в США в 1964 году. С тех пор она выдержала шестнадцать изданий на пяти языках. Наконец, она опубликована и на русском. Автор книги, американский физик и математик Р. Эттингер, не побоялся поставить под сомнение общепринятые «истины» — неизбежность и необратимость смерти. В своей книге он поднимает такие вопросы, как: • Возможно ли победить болезни и старение? • Когда это произойдёт? • Может ли наш современник «убежать» от смерти? • Нужно ли это делать?