This title explores issues related to death and dying, including: end-of-life care; economics and end-of-life care decisions; government involvement; rights of terminally ill people; hospice care; technology and life spans.

End-of-life care should be minimal and swift / Ken Murray -- End-of-life care should not necessarily be minimal and swift / Cynthia Jones-Nosacek -- Economics should influence end-of-life care decisions / Susan Jacoby -- Economics should not influence end-of-life care decisions / Mike Stopa -- The government should ration end-of-life care / M. Gregg Bloche -- The government should not ration end-of-life care / Ken Connor -- Terminally ill people have the right to die when and how they want / Samuel Smith -- Terminally ill people do not have the right to die when and how they want / Fritz Spencer -- Legalizing physician-assisted suicide will lead to abuse and coerced death / Cardinal Seań P. O'Malley -- Legalized physician-assisted suicide has many safeguards to prevent abuse and coerced death / Marcia Angell -- Hospice care is preferable to assisted suicide / Linda Campanella -- Hospice care is not preferable to assisted suicide / John Crisp -- It can be moral to end the lives of children / Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva -- It is never moral to end the lives of children / Andrew Brown -- Technology may allow humans to live forever / Ray Kurzweil interviewed by Duncan Begg.