DEATH AND EUTHANASIA IN JEWISH LAW -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- WITHDRAWING OR WITHHOLDING NUTRITION, HYDRATION OR OXYGEN FROM PATIENTS -- EUTHANASIA -- SUICIDE, ASSISTED SUICIDE, ACTIVE EUTHANASIA: A Halakhic Inquiry -- RABBI JUDAH'S HANDMAID: Narrative Influence On Life's Important Decisions -- END-STAGE EUTHANASIA: Some Other Considerations -- DETERMINING DEATH IN JEWISH LAW -- SELECTED REFORM RESPONSA -- EUTHANASIA (1950) -- EUTHANASIA (1980) -- QUALITY OF LIFE AND EUTHANASIA -- HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE AND SUICIDE -- CAESAREAN ON A DEAD MOTHER -- LIVING WILL -- CHOOSING WHICH PATIENT TO SAVE -- A MEDICAL EXPERIMENT -- A DANGEROUS MEDICAL EXPERIMENT -- NUTRITION AND INCURABLE CANCER -- DRUGS TO RELIEVE PAIN -- AN ELDERLY PATIENT WHO REFUSES DIALYSIS -- SURGERY AT NINETY-SIX -- CPR AND THE FRAIL ELDERLY -- PHYSICIAN KEEPING THE TRUTH FROM A PATIENT -- INFORMING A DYING PATIENT -- DETERMINATION AND POSTPONEMENT OF DEATH -- PASSIVE EUTHANASIA -- ALLOWING A TERMINAL PATIENT TO DIE -- CONTRIBUTORS